Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Educational broadcasting was given a boost with the establishment of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which will subsidize noncommercial broadcast operations. - Terms for settling the national railroad strike were dictated after repeated extensions of the strike deadline failed to avert a stoppage...
...France's 23 universities last week, 250.000 students abandoned their lectures in a carefully planned three-day boycott of classes. At the same time, class attendance at the University of Madrid dropped sharply during a ten-day strike, and 1,000 students conducted a protest march. In Italy, although the Catholic University of Milan was reopened after student protests had closed it for a week, absenteeism persisted; meanwhile, riotous students at the University of Naples barricaded Rector Giuseppe Tesauro in his own office until club-swinging police broke through the blockade...
...leader of the Delano County grape strike told students yesterday to invite Senators and Congressmen to Harvard and "put them on the spot," by asking them embarassing questions about the working conditions of grape pickers and farm workers...
Since the strike began 27 months ago, students have worked steadily to eliminate "scab" grapes from stores across the country. They have been especially successful in Boston, which is 75 per cent "clean," said Chavez...
Students at the University of California at Berkeley were the first to join the grape-picker's struggle. Early in the strike, they contributed their lunch money to buy food for the strikers, who live on five dollars a week...