Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pending bill that would make it a crime, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, to give, solicit or advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman Joe Pool of Texas, sponsor of the bill, and his subcommittee colleagues...
...everyone's astonishment, District Court Judge Howard Corcoran granted a temporary restraining order to allow a three-judge appeals panel to deal with the constitutional question. Corcoran's action was unprecedented-no judge had ever before enjoined a congressional committee hearing-and it brought a roar of protest from Congressmen. Just before the hearing was to open, a three-judge panel, including Corcoran himself, dissolved the injunction and put off the constitutional question for future deliberation...
...clock were moving close to 10 p.m., the hour for the final vote on Prime Minister Harold Wilson's drastic bill to freeze wages and prices. Wilson knew that he would win. But he also knew that some two dozen left-wing Laborites were certain to abstain in protest against his tactics in steamrollering the bill through Commons...
...only history texts that "include accurate recording of any and all ethnic groups who have made contributions to the world. American or the State of Michigan societies." California enacted a similar law last year. The N.A.A.C.P is compiling lists of text it considers fair, vows "community action and protest" against school boards that approve books it deems "distorted or segregated." Harlem Congressman Adam Clayton Powell will question textbook publishers at hearings on the topic by his House Education and Labor Committee late this month...
Since nearly every line of dialogue strikes a familiar blue note, the only way to justify still another fictional show-biz biography is to link it to the color question. Adam is a specialty act salted with social protest. It is played at a feverish pitch by Sammy Davis Jr., who has surrounded himself with such Negro performers as Ossie Davis, Louis Armstrong and, as the girl in his cheering section, a sunburst of shy sepia charm named Cicely Tyson. A handful of jazzmen (Mel Torme, Kai Winding, Nat Adderly) make the score swing but aren't much help...