Word: summerizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown explained during the summer that the group chose the word "moratorium" to preclude use of the word "strike," which bears unwanted connotations of violence and would be wrongly interpreted as an action against the institutions struck rather than against the war. "It is important to employ actions and rhetoric that will maintain the broadest possible opposition to the war," a group statement reads...
Bill Ayers, a Weatherman organizer from Michigan, said during the summer that perhaps 20,000 people were expected in Chicago; 15,000 actually demonstrating and 5000 hard-core SDS. (To Ayers SDS means RYM, the group that walked out. And in the midwest this is fairly accurate; PL is strong only on the coasts.) As tentatively planned, there will be eight "centers" where people will stay, perhaps church basements or student cooperatives around the University of Chicago area. People from each center will act together and form into cadres of 40 each that will fight police together-that...
Consider this summer as an example. After a weak start with an expose of overly-loud music at rock'n'-roll halls-a topic that never caught the serious public interest he hoped for-Nader coverd a series of weightier topies. In July, he told George McGovern's Special Senate Committee on Nutrition about the built-in dangers of modern American food, he was later invited to serve on a White House panel on the subject. Shortly afterward there was an exhaustive report on the threat of "brown lung" for workers in textile mills-a report that surprised many public...
Late in the summer. Nader held a news conference to air his charges of government secrecy, and he testified before another Congressional committee that was digesting various plans for a Consumer's Agency in the federal government. All the while, Nader kept the pressure on a number of his old enemies: the titans of Detroit who-Nader said-were still dragging their feet on auto safety: the Agriculture Department's meat inspectors, who didn't seem to be trying hard enough to keep the rotten carcasses out of the stores: the United Mine Workers leadership, which cared more about keeping...
Along the way on his various projects. Nader has cultivated a sizable lore to surround his public image. One Washington burcaucrat told me very solemnly this summer that Nader never sleeps, rarely eats, and only takes time off from his work to visit his mother in Connecticut. Another man pointed out the spot on F Street in downtown Washington where Nader supposedly disappeared one sunny day, only to emerge two hours later on a speaker's podium in California...