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...very distressed by the CRIMSON'S article on the Civil Defense demonstrations and by the response of certain students to the fact that TOCSIN formally cooperated with Boston SANE on this demonstration. The article gave a very inaccurate impression of the tone of the picketing: the SANE demonstration was as well-planned and serious as the TOCSIN walk. While it is true that one sign out of the approximately fifty informed passers-by that "Man is not a mole," the placards were on the whole brief statements of issues regarding disarmament, civil defense, and the Framingham shelter program. The vignettes...
...demonstration been an ill-conceived and empty protest, the TOCSIN Executive Committee would not have given it formal endorsement. Contrary to the apparent impression of some students. TOCSIN does not have a policy of non-cooperation with other groups. Though differences between TOCSIN and SANE have made autonomy logical for the Harvard group, TOCSIN shares with SANE a desire to organize effective public pressure on specific political issues. In this case, it would have been foolish for TOCSIN to duplicate SANE's excellent study of the Civil Defense Issue...
Fresh Paint. This ringing tocsin for revolt was not answered in somnolent Portugal. Under Salazar, the rich are satisfied and the poor are at least quiet. The law requires that every house in Portugal be painted every two years, but the government seems unconcerned whether the same houses contain running water or electric lights. A onetime professor of economics, Salazar often speaks of "the grace of being poor," and has outlawed strikes, lockouts and "similar irregularities." The wages of skilled workers reach a high of $2.80 a day. There are six different kinds of national police, and the armed forces...
Over 70 persons joined in the demonstration sponsored by the Greater Boston Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy. Robert E. Well '61, head of Harvard's Tocsin organization, estimated that 15-20 of the picketers were from the University...
Gordon Levin, teaching fellow in English and chairman of the picket committee, said yesterday that he expected some help from the Tocsin group at the College. He added that all interested students were welcome to participate in the protest, which will be held from...