Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...issues were neither "trivial" nor "phony" but a general protest against the war in Viet Nam as well as against university rules that permit nonstudent U.S. Navy recruiters to set up tables when other nonstudents, such as conscientious objectors, are forbidden representation. It was the arrival of riot police with helmets and clubs that "enraged the demonstrators," not just cops...
...soon as he has served his time (21 years if he wins parole). And some trucking employers are admittedly anxious for his early return; only Hoffa, they are convinced, can keep his men in line. Indeed, Detroit's Teamsters staged a 24-hour walkout last week in protest against the Supreme Court decision, forcing Hoffa to rush home and quell the strike at an emotional meeting. "Return to your jobs!" he cried. "Don't take the law into your own hands or you'll hurt me! Don't do it! Please...
...Meselson and Edsall are not leading a protest of scientists who worked on the weapon and now want it responsibly suppressed. They are men who feel they understand what the weapon would be like, and they want to stop this Manhattan Project before it progresses...
...would support him. In a calmly delivered speech, Heyns told 1,000 members of the Academic Senate that the campus was faced with "a chronic condition" in which nonstudent agitators, in "one of the most unusual town-gown antagonisms in history," had made the campus a target for protest. He drew a burst of applause when he said, "There are hundreds of faculty members and thousands of students who are heartily sick of the unrest, turbulence and the tenuous control we have over our community and who yearn for the stability essential for a climate of productive learning." Vowing that...
Opponents of the plan protest, first of all, that a volunteer army would cost not $5 billion but $17 billion. The latter figure is derived from the same data as Friedman's, but as one Defense Department official points out, "econometrics is an art not a science. No one really knows how to handle the data for such a long-range estimate." To this Friedman replies that the surest way of seeing who is right is to raise salaries and watch the enlistment rate. If the number of volunteers increases with salary, keep raising the salary until the draft...