Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trash-collection and auto users' fee), the mayor and his nine-man city council adopted an income tax ordinance without a public vote. Shouts of outrage echoed in the Rockies, as the Denver citizenry dramatized memories of the Boston Tea Party by waving tea bags at protest meetings and crying, "No taxation without representation!"* Newspapers took sides, and, surprisingly, the hard-hit Chamber of Commerce, figuring that the tax would drive still more people into the suburbs, lined up against the mayor. Organized labor supported Big Nick...
Partly in protest against a fancied inconvenience, but largely out of orneriness, the undergraduates started milk binges; many went back for four or five glasses, and endurance artists claimed to have guzzled twelve to 20. This brought a warning from Dr. John Seabury Hathaway, director of the university's department of public health, and Dr. John Woodruff Ewell, assistant director: "The normal, healthy individual can readily precipitate kidney stone formation by the simple ingestion of excessive mineral salts [in] ice cream, cheese, butter [and] milk . . . A good rule of thumb to insure ample dilution: two glasses of water...
...respect for the intellectual, France yields to no nation, but its treatment of its universities is something else again. Last week the French were pondering the implications of a wave of protest marches and demonstrations that swept through every university town. There was no violence, but, warned Chemistry Professor Charles Prevost in Paris: "This is our last peaceful demonstration. The next time we will go on strike." Among the universities' major complaints...
...India or Egypt. In Sukarno's absence, Parliament Speaker Sartono would serve as Acting President, working in cooperation with Premier Djuanda and Major General Abdul Haris Nasution, chief of staff of the Indonesian army. There was talk that former Vice President Mohammed Hatta, who resigned last year in protest against Sukarno's attempt to set up a "guided democracy'' in partnership with the Communists, might return to office...
Taking heart from the decision, other consumers began to protest. Two subsidiaries of California's Pacific Lighting Corp. objected to a $10,000,000 yearly rate increase proposed by El Paso Natural Gas Co., urged the FPC to refuse it on grounds of the appeals court decision...