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Word: protester (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...across the country, radical groups are working intensively on plans for a massive descent on Chicago in mid-October. They claim that as many as 30,000 students will gather there to protest the war and demonstrate their support for the Black Panthers and for the "Conspiracy 8," who are charged with conspiring to incite riots at the Chicago Democratic convention last year. For sheer propaganda, however, nothing the activists are planning or doing is likely to equal the summer project of ex-S.D.S. Organizer Rennie Davis and Detroit's Linda Evans, an S.D.S. leader. They are presently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: How Radicals Spend Their Summer | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...network of students to a force that would decisively help unseat the President and carve a niche in history for Eugene McCarthy. In cities a continent apart, two maimed minds were moving nearer their appointments with infamy. And in Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was making himself a target for protest by ordering his police, eleven days after Martin Luther King's assassination, to "shoot to kill" arsonists in time of riot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Teddy White Runs Again | 8/1/1969 | See Source »

...when constitutional rights were openly violated on the ironic grounds that this was the only way to defend the Constitution. "It is an outrage," declared Columbia University Government Professor Alan Westin, author of the 1967 book Privacy and Freedom and one of 13 professors who fired off an impassioned protest to Mitchell. "It is one of the most dangerous claims for power by an Attorney General in our history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Government: The New Line on Wiretapping | 7/25/1969 | See Source »

...week, less than two months after its national release, the single had sold more than a million copies and had zoomed to first place on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. At the same time, RCA issued an LP combining 2525 with nine of Rick's other songs (no protest stuff, just reminiscences about love and other "Now subjects"). Everybody connected with the album was confident that it would do just as well as 2525. Especially Rick. "Nearly every song is profound," he said unflinchingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pop: Futuristic Nostalgia | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

...discuss the crisis in the Roman Catholic priesthood. The delegates to the second Europe-wide symposium of the Catholic hierarchy had hoped for an atmosphere of ecclesiastical calm. But out side the palace were 70 priests (some of them in sport coats and red ties), part of a protesting "shadow symposium" that had been hastily convened at a nearby hostel. Bullhorn in hand, French Dominican Jean Cardonnel, a fiery leftist whose Lenten address helped inspire last year's "May events" in Paris, set the tone of the protest. The servants of Jesus Christ, he said, were now joining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: Challenge in Chur | 7/18/1969 | See Source »

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