Word: protestations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...watch anyway. And last week there was a letter from Cavett's idiot cousin Clarence. He is the simp who lost his job at the St. Louis Zoo after he decided to run the place on the honor system. Recently, reports Cavett, Clarence registered his own feeble protest to the Viet Nam war. He boiled his draft card...
...last week. Considering the makeup of the Liberation News Service, that sort of performance can only be expected. The service is the undertaking of two unruly firebrands: Marshall Bloom, 23, who graduated from Amherst and later was temporarily suspended from the London School of Economics for organizing a student protest meeting; and Raymond Mungo, 21, who kept Boston University in a constant state of nerves when he edited the campus paper...
...Martin insisted on to remove the "gold cover" that has been in force since 1934. But the vote was close (39 to 37), as conservative Senators who want deeper cuts in non-military spending and liberals who oppose increased spending on Viet Nam joined together in a coalition of protest. Under the bill, to be signed by President Johnson this week, the U.S. need no longer keep $10.4 billion in gold-or most of the total $11.4 billion gold supply the country currently holds-on hand as backing for 25% of the $41.6 billion in paper dollars presently in circulation...
...employees of the Plaza Athénée, George V and La Trémoille luxury hotels marched last week past venerable haute couture and perfume houses along Paris' Avenue Montaigne. "We demand our heritage of great hotels," read one banner. A few hotel guests joined the protest of their chambermaids, valets, busboys and chefs. "Our hotels are among the most prestigious in the world," explained Monsieur Bougenaux, head concierge of Plaza Athenee. Now, he fears, all this is going to change...
...afternoon press conference today, protest leaders listed four demands that they said must be met before the protest will end. They demanded that...