Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rural Deprivation. The whirlwind of civil rights protest that swept up millions of American Negroes over the past decade never touched Lurp Leader Glide Brown. In his starched khakis, cocky tan beret and flaming sword patch on the right, he is a 5-ft. 7-in., 168-lb. pillar of dignity. Great-grandson of a slave, he grew up in Brewton (pop. 7,000), a sawmill town in the piny woods of Alabama. His father, Clyde Brown Sr., is known as "Buck" to his friends because of his lively buck-and-wing dancing. Individualist Glide Brown Jr. always insisted...
Downtown Hanoi. As Hickory continued at week's end, the combined Allied forces had already killed more than 700 North Vietnamese and wounded countless more. Predictably, there were cries of protest over the U.S. incursion into the DMZ; Moscow, for example, called it "dangerous escalation." In fact, the U.S. admitted that Operation Hickory, far from being a long-considered step-up in the war, was rather a tactical and defensive necessity against the threat posed by the sudden North Vietnamese buildup. The U.S. command in Saigon indicated that U.S. forces would not stay in the southern part...
...flexible administrator who contends that regulations must grow out of ever-changing situations, Martha Peterson applauds students who question policy-even some of those who engage in organized protest. But she draws the line when such activity "interferes with the rights of other students who want to continue with their work." The possibility that there might be more problems with marijuana, sex, and even miniskirts in Manhattan than in Madison does not frighten her. "I am sure that there always will be something unusual happening," she says. "I'd be disappointed if it didn't." As for miniskirts...
...offers advice on campus construction plans. Wesleyan undergraduates also rate their professors. And their voices are not ignored: when Senior Dave Eger objected to administration plans to build a hockey rink before erecting a needed gymnasium, he rounded up 546 students' signatures on a petition. Thanks to his protest, the plans are being reconsidered...
Greeks and Greek Americans from Harvard, M.I.T. and the Boston area, will meet at 2 p.m. Sunday, May 28, on the Boston Common to protest the Greek Army's cancellation of the free elections once scheduled for that date...