Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...revolt spread throughout France, De Gaulle said nothing in public, true to his precept that "nothing enhances authority better than silence." Then he went on television, his image preceded and followed only by a test pattern, since the employees at the state-owned television studios had gone out on strike too. His sparse hair carefully combed over his pate, he looked rested and relaxed, a paragon of composure. "Everyone understands," he said, "the significance of the present events?in our universities and then in the social fields...
...wave of protests against him, that there might be enough conservative Frenchmen to give him a fifty-fifty chance. The unanswerable question is how the mood of France will develop in the next few weeks. The passage of time may work in De Gaulle's favor; the general strike can hardly continue for three more weeks until the referendum. If a semblance of order returns, so may the basic realization that however the Gaullist regime has failed France, no other government in the visible future is likely to do much better...
...most intent upon keeping the pressure on Columbia remains Mark Rudd; despite his suspension, he has vowed to carry on the students' strike through the summer and into the fall. The day after his suspension, he was back haranguing students, released on $2,500 bail posted by his father, a realtor in Maplewood, N.J. Though they dispute his tactics, Rudd's parents have supported his ambitions. "My son, the revolutionary," says his mother proudly. "I was a member of the depressed generation and my greatest concern has always been making a living," says his father...
...control of the schools on a gradual basis. In the wake of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville protests, the United Federation of Teachers entered the fray, led by its aggressive president, Albert Shanker, who was jailed for 15 days last winter after leading his union through a three-week citywide strike. At the state capitol, 500 lobbying teachers jammed the corridors. They argued that decentralization would in effect be turning the schools over to demagogues, warned that numerous lay boards might intensify latent racial and political conflicts in the city and give parents, rather than professionals, the right to dictate curriculums...
...University should be represented on the Board of Overseers is excellent, but why draw the line at students and those holding Corporation appointments? All Harvard employees should be eligible. Many individuals have worked here for decades. Do we have to wait until we experience the same kind of general strike that hobbled Yale recently for a week before we admit that these men and women have in intense, legitimate and responsible interest in the way the University is run? John Coolidge '35 Director, Fogg Art Museum