Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 7000 protest marchers thronged Grosvenor Square and hurled firecrackers, smoke bombs, and other missiles. Most were cleared from in front of the embassy after a siege lasting nearly three hours...
...supporters are so concerned that a Wallace victory would damage the Senator's prestige that they have distributed bumper stickers pleading, HELP STROM, ELECT NIXON. But conservative South Carolinians are not inclined to help Strom, and Wallace is now ahead. In Florida, a vague desire to register a protest against both major parties has erased Nixon's earlier lead. His final campaign rally in Miami drew only a so-so crowd last week, and Nixon admitted that the state is "even, insofar as we are concerned and the third-party candidate." Humphrey runs a distant third...
...little impulse leads to another. Police stormed into the campus of Brasilia to arrest five students wanted for "subversion." The cops cracked heads as they moved from classroom to lab. Rising in Congress to protest the police conduct, Márcio Moreira Alves, one of the few remaining opposition Deputies, proposed a public boycott of the Independence Day military parades. Duly insulted by this, the Ministers of the Army, Air Force and Navy then moved, with President Costa e Silva's assent, to cashier Alves for abusing "his political rights." To some observers, it looked like the first step...
Yalies came to Radcliffe last night to recruit bodies for a massive protest they're calling "Coeducation Week at Yale...
...vote for Humphrey or Nixon to save the country from Wallace is an unnecessary gesture that registers no protest; for even if he managed to throw the election into the House of Representatives, the Alabaman would not have the strength to see either himself or his philosophy prevail...