Word: protesters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which he sees in America's domestic and international policies. He could not bring himself to vote for Adlai Stevenson last fall, because Stevenson's party is the party of Senator James Eastland. He says now that he is sorry he did not at least register some sort of protest against the Eisenhower Administration. "Mr. Dulles," he says, "becomes more incredible by the day." Worthy is also incensed over the unbalanced and overly rosy American propaganda about integration which is given out abroad by officially sponsored American Negroes, who are looked upon by other Negroes as "either streamlined Uncle Toms...
Worthy's career previous to his trip to the mainland of China has been composed partly of active, but non-violent protest against segregation and partly of distinguished service as a foreign correspondent. His integrationist career has its roots in his family life. In 1916, before he was born, his grandmother was arrested for picketing the white-supremacy movie "Birth of a Nation" when it was shown in Boston, where Worthy's late father, a doctor from a small Georgia town, had moved. Worthy graduated from Boston Latin School and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine, and in 1951 studied...
...Syria, later Rome. In the wake of Alexander the Great, the world outside Israel was dominated by Greek ways and Greek ideas, and many Jews were abandoning the ancient paths of their fathers for the new Hellenic mode. According to a widely held theory, the Essenes left Jerusalem in protest against such corruption of the ancient Jewish faith, and because of some unidentified act of persecution, withdrew into the desert to await...
...protest against the Italian government's refusal to appropriate sufficient funds for art restoration, Italian Fine Arts superintendents have twice gone out on strike. Last week the government finally promised some emergency help: $32 million as a first move toward "the safeguarding of our artistic heritage." But with 1,270 churches and chapels 720 palazzos and villas (including Raphael's Roman villa), 200 fortresses and 120 masterpieces (including those by Titian and Tintoretto) in need of immediate attention, at least $100 million was needed to cover only the most urgent requests...
...Angeles route-the Dutch made an unprecedented complaint to Secretary of State Dulles, tartly announced that they will shortly renew this demand. Less than 24 hours after the department's announcement, the Senate also noted its displeasure ; it voted to restrict presidential authority over international airline agreements in protest against the grant. (A similar Senate proposal died in the House last year...