Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House Un-American Activities Committee subpoenaed eight members of Berkeley's radical Left, last Thursday, to give testimony about their Vietnam protest activities...
...Pacifist Protest. Virtually ignoring the torrent of expensive wedding gifts, White House handouts played up the sentimental, homey and offbeat: from Uncle Tony Taylor in Texas, a set of six silver syllabub cups that had belonged to Grandmother Minnie Lee Patillo Taylor; Texas-shaped cookie cutters from Mrs. Jake Pickle, wife of the Congressman who holds L.B.J.'s old seat; from Mrs. Orville Freeman, a jeweled Pakistani nose ring, symbolizing female submission to her mate (who, vows the bride, will never become "Mister Luci Johnson"). The bipartisan House leadership took up a collection for a congressional gift, but Iowa...
Some unpleasantness was inevitable. After Aug. 6 was set as the date, the Hiroshima World Friendship Center, an organization of Japanese and American pacifists, protested that this was the anniversary of the first A-bomb raid. Luci's rumored reaction may be apocryphal, but it is not atypical: "O.K., how about December 7?" Another outfit, calling itself the Ad Hoc Committee for the August 6 Protest Against the War in Viet Nam, announced its intention to picket the National Shrine and the White House throughout the wedding celebration...
...counts on the U.S. finally tiring of the war and pulling out, he would thus be working against his own aim. Beyond this, the reaction from other countries must have raised for him the unwelcome prospect that he might make Hanoi, rather than Washington, the target of war protest...
...size of the margin was misleading, for Wilson's measures have exacerbated the Labor Party's internal feuds. Fearing massive unemployment, 47 Labor M.P.s signed a protest against Wilson's measures, and it was all Deputy Prime Minister George Brown could do to win the "reluctant acquiescence" of Britain's influential Trades Union Congress to the idea of a voluntary wage freeze...