Word: springing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...experience in Viet Nam, however, there is a move in Congress to narrow the presidential reach. Indeed, Idaho's Senator Frank Church has gone so far as to warn that U.S. presidential power is leading toward "Cae-sarism." "The Roman Caesars," he told his colleagues recently, "did not spring full blown from the brow of Zeus. Subtly and insidiously, they stole their powers away from an unsuspecting Senate...
That same spring, in the Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles, the largely Filipino grape pickers of the A.F.L.-. C.I.O.'s fledgling Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee won a brief strike for pay equal to that given field hands imported from Mexico. When the workers moved north to Delano at the end of the summer, grape growers there refused to make a similar agreement, and A.W.O.C. once more went on strike. On Sept. 16, which just happened to be Mexican Independence Day, Chavez's group held a tumultuous meeting and voted unanimously to join the walkout. The hall of the Roman...
...MILITANT action by students hit campuses from Harvard to Berkeley this spring, harried college administrators, looking over their shoulders to Capitol Hill, were worried that the "student unrest" would prove to be a spur for repressive legislation--against students, and perhaps indirectly, against the universities themselves. While the final legislative results are not in, it does appear, however, that the Congressional reaction to campus commotion has thus far been surprisingly mild...
This lack of White House support has undoubtedly helped to slow the progress of strong anti-university bills, but it might not have been as effective were it not for the fact that college administrators themselves--in their testimony before Congress as well as in their actions this spring--have been trying to assure Congress that colleges have no intention of allowing disruptions of their operations...
While many Harvard students would no doubt have preferred at least some continuation of the "new barbarianism" in University Hall to the police action which ended it, Harvard's action--and similar actions on other campuses this spring--have probably helped, at least in the short run, to reassure Congress and to lessen the chances of passage of repressive legislation...