Word: protester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rest of the campaign-if Duncan will only let him. The Governor's statements on the war have taken on a curiously ambivalent tone. He chides both "those who would give the President a blank check and those who make a public spectacle of themselves by protesting more for the sake of protest." He pledges "unqualified and complete support" for the men fighting in Viet Nam, and has suggested economic sanctions against those countries shipping into Haiphong harbor. Like everyone else, he is also for negotiations if and when...
...shot into a crowd of Negroes picketing the Liberty Supermarket. The already effective demonstration picked up, and the huge store, losing $100,000 per week in Negro business, agreed to hire Negro checkers. But Negro civil rights leaders planned one more demonstration--a march on the courthouse to protest city inaction in other areas, such as hiring Negro policemen. Leaflets calling for the late-March demonstration also recommended a "period of self-denial"--Negroes would not buy new clothes for Easter "to call attention to the need for renewing our commitment to justice...
Symptomatic of the faults of the present curriculum was the protest last December of 20 second-year students, who requested permission to withdraw from lectures and, with faculty supervision, try an experiment in self-education As evidence of the new attitude towards reform at the Med School, the students were immediately given permission to carry out their plans...
...Purists protest that such tours de force rely more on hired technicians and expensive presses than on the artist's guiding hand, but Director Lieberman doubts that the artist ever really loses control. Furthermore, he says, collaboration is not that new: "Holbein never cut his woodcuts, nor did Durer; someone else did it for them...
President Johnson sounded almost apologetic in his protest. "I had hoped," he said, "that these businessmen could have forgone the necessity of increasing prices." But the fact that automakers would up prices on their 1967 models had long been accepted by insiders. Last week Germany's Volkswagen led the way, announcing that the East Coast port-of-entry price for the modest Beetle would jump from $1,585 to $1,639. Then, in rapid order, came Ford, with an average $107 hike; Chrysler, with a $92 boost, and General Motors, with a lower and more competitive $53 increase...