Word: sitdowns
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...most ominous incident occurred three weeks ago on the aircraft carrier Constellation. Charging "calculated racism," 120 black members of the crew-joined by twelve whites-staged a sitdown at sea. Explained Radarman Third Class Lonnie Brown, 23: "We wanted to air our views and tell the captain what was actually happening. We had to get the word across to the man who runs the ship." But Captain J.D. Ward refused to see the men. Instead he called for a general muster, and the blacks were suddenly surrounded by thousands of whites. Later they were put off the ship...
...study was commissioned after a group of Radcliffe mothers staged a sitdown protest at the Manhattan headquarters of the First National City Bank, which handles Harvard investments. Three of the mothers had recently been mugged by drug addicts on Park Avenue between 72nd and 84th streets. When they discovered Fixyou, Inc., was one of the country's largest suppliers of heroin, the demonstration was organized in order to demand that the university sell its more than 2 million dollars worth of stock in the company. Mr. Spock immediately commissioned the present study in order, as he said, that...
...Hundreds counterattacked with fists, sticks and stones. When the police proved unable to quell the demonstrators, tough riot-control troops were called in. The angry young people reportedly killed a policeman, stoned a bookstore selling Communist literature and threw a fire bomb into the local Communist Party headquarters. A sitdown strike was staged by workers in a synthetics factory. Five hundred people were arrested, of whom 200 have been jailed or are awaiting trial...
...soft drinks, the Auto-Train will seem like Queen Elizabeth 2 on wheels. For adults, there will be cocktails and complimentary hors d'oeuvres in each of the 13 full-dome coaches. The kids will be entertained with cartoons and a G-rated movie. At 9 p.m., a sitdown buffet will be served (Beef Wellington or lobster), followed by another movie for the grownups and drinks until 3 a.m. in a lounge complete with vocalist. For an extra $40, a couple can have a compartment that includes TV set and breakfast...
...blame for the rebellion. Yet most of the few prisoner gains were made through courts to change the policies of prison officials. In 1966, a federal court ordered officials to formulate rules that would allow Black Muslims to practice their faith. Attica prisoners conducted a non-violent sitdown strike last year, protesting low workshop wages and high prison-commissary prices, that led to a regulation cutting back on commissary profits. Last winter, prisoners won the right to be represented by lawyers at parole hearings, which has resulted in a backlog of hearings that, paradoxically, is a new source of grievance...