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With the order of the day-"Go limp if police attempt to move you"-Philosopher-Pacifist Bertrand Russell, 88, laboriously and lengthily prepared for his massive, passive, sit-down demonstration in favor of unilateral British nuclear disarmament. (The new creed: "I'd rather be Red than dead ") When the great day finally came last weekend, the Gandhiose effort was a bit of a flop. When his silent horde of 3,000 arrived outside the Ministry of Defense to squat on the cold pavement, the box formation of 400 bobbies perversely refused to touch a soul. When the Russell forces...
Stirs & Stripes. In Lakeland, Fla., ten prisoners at the city stockade were put on a three-day diet of bread and water after staging a sit-down strike and refusing "to work in stripes like criminals...
...Wages. Over his 40 years as U.M.W. head, he battled with presidents, congresses, courts, coal owners, and colleagues. Often his battles obscured the victory. Said Lewis to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, under whose benevolent New Deal he founded the C.I.O. and deployed the sit-down strike: "Nobody can call John L. Lewis a liar and least of all Franklin Delano Roosevelt.'' He denounced F.D.R.'s first Vice President, John Nance Garner, as "a labor-baiting, poker-playing, whisky-drinking, evil old man." Of the late A.F.L. President William Green he said: "I have done...
...just three days of vacation this year), but his enemies say he works hardest at offending the party's bigwigs with his acidly articulate speeches against the Democratic leaders of Congress, Southern segregationists-any target of opportunity. "There is no question that there's a sit-down on money," says one party wheel horse. "All the other money raisers are cool toward Butler or actually dislike him." In his threatening notice last week, Butler did nothing to appease them. As they well know, some adamantly anti-Butler delegations, notably from the proud South, are likely to find themselves...
Brought in to reform Montana State Prison at Deer Lodge after political appointees had mismanaged their way into a riot in 1957 and a sit-down strike in 1958, able Warden Floyd E. Powell, 46, gave convicts a break. He put salt, pepper, mustard and catchup on the mess-hall tables, instituted TV-watching hours, worked hard to shape up the grim, turreted brick buildings built...