Word: protesting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chums with Peking. Humphrey's handling of his trip and the subsequent briefings won him more attention than have come his way since his nomination in 1964. He also had his troubles. From Pakistan, where he had met the coolest reception of his tour, came a chorus of protest over a story distributed by the United States Information Service after he had left. It quoted him as saying that Pakistan was "fully aware of the threat of Communist China," whereas the regime is as eager as ever to stay chums with Peking. Humphrey subsequently denied making the statement...
Badly framed laws have allowed new highways to slash senselessly through residential areas, uprooting thousands of families and needlessly destroying neighborhoods. In New Orleans, an expressway now planned over local protest will bring the roar of rushing traffic to the historic Vieux Carre. In New York City, a 20-year-old controversy still swirls about a proposed Lower Manhattan expressway while the decaying area through which it is to run decays further because no one wants to risk improving properties that may yet be destroyed...
March 31. Ironically, the most telling attack on the new policy came not from the Conservatives but from a Laborite, Christopher Mayhew, who resigned in protest as Navy Minister. The $5.6 billion budget, warned Mayhew, was "too small if we stay east of Suez and too big if we do not." Though he had quit specifically over the carrier question, he told the House that his far greater fear was that Britain simply could no longer support its worldwide defense responsibilities unless it depended so heavily on U.S. assistance that the British would become "auxiliaries rather than allies...
...administration. One graduate student was fired from a college in South Carolina when he complained about the steam heat being on in his classroom in July. In the most spectacular incident of the summer, eleven instructors lost their jobs at Bishop College outside of Dallas when they organized a protest march against the bookstore, which was overcharging students...
...march was intended to protest particularly the Brookline Elm St. route, the path favored by the State Department of Public Works that would uproot between 3000-5000 people...