Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russia came through clear and cold last week from Moscow. It was the face of Nikita Khrushchev, confident, truculent, uncompromising, as he told W. Averell Harriman, U.S. wartime Ambassador to Russia, what he thought of things in a tone that Harriman-were he still ambassador-would have had to protest...
Throughout India last week there was an increasingly articulate protest against the leadership-or lack of it-of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru...
...direct-action groups in Kerala, and demanded that India do something about Red China's aggression in Tibet. Last week he called on the exiled Dalai Lama, and in the face of Nehru's indifference, urged the envoys of 14 Afro-Asian countries to unite in protest against Red China's blood actions in Tibet...
...that toppled Peron in 1955-Fatal Flaw. But the plan had a paradoxical flaw: too many other officers outside the plot were also angry with Frondizi. After the Peron "revelation," two nonplotting generals presented ultimatums of their own for changes in the Frondizi government. Other garrisons loudly joined the protest, and the military opposition to Frondizi broadened to the point where the plotters could not control and maneuver it. Frondizi began making concessions, notably jettisoning an unpopular under secretary of war. Admiral Rial threw up his hands and surrendered; three fellow conspirators took refuge in the Uruguayan embassy...
...vast gulf between scientists and nonscientists is often a subject of jokes. But English Novelist Charles Percy Snow is no longer amused. Sir Charles is qualified to protest: he worked as a physicist long before he became Britain's most knowledgeable novelist of top-level science and politics (The Conscience of the Rich, Homecoming); he was knighted not for literature but for his work as chief organizer of scientists in the World War II Ministry of Labor; he is now a director of the English Electric Co. and scientific adviser to the British Civil Service Commission. "The degree...