Word: towns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Small-town housewives and Wall Street lawyers, college presidents and politicians, veteran demonstrators and people who have never made the "V" sign of the peace movement?thousands of Americans who have never thought to grow a beard, don a hippie headband or burn a draft card?planned to turn out on M-day to register their dismay and frustration over Viet Nam. Yes terday's Vietniks are determined to grow into tomorrow's majority...
...Eugene McCarthy in 1968; hundreds of colleges and universities are closing for the day or radically altering schedules to allow for Moratorium demonstrations. The idea has spread from the campuses to the community at large?though not without arousing resistance. In the affluent suburb of Westport, Conn., the representative town meeting bitterly debated for nearly three hours last week and then only narrowly passed, 17 to 15, a resolution asking immediate action to get the U.S. out of Viet Nam. In California's San Joaquin Valley, the Porterville police chief denied local residents permission to march down the customary Main...
DEREK C. BOK, Dean of the Law School, joined a panel in his home town. Belmont, to discuss the Moratorium, the draft, and questions of legitimate dissent. Bok spent the morning preparing for the three-hour panel session in the afternoon. Then he returned to the Law School to meet with his regular 4-6 p.m. class. At the request of his students-half of whom wanted the normal class to go on, and half wanting to join the Moratorium-Bok agreed to hold a class yester-day and a special make-up class next week...
...major American city has been more eager to prove itself progressive than Atlanta. In eight short years under Mayor Ivan Allen Jr., civic leaders have successfully peeled away the old image of a sleepy Southern town, replacing it with that of a racially enlightened and artistically active city. The transformation has been profitable, luring outside investment and resulting in a phenomenal business expansion...
...work. The work was directed toward making a success of "Moratorium Day," a massive nationwide antiwar protest scheduled for Oct. 15 (see THE NATION). The day is supposed to be marked by class boycotts, mass rallies, teach-ins, the distribution of leaflets and doorbell ringing to mobilize both town and gown sentiment for ending the Viet Nam war. A two-day demonstration is scheduled to follow on Nov. 14-15, with one day of protest added each successive month -an ambitious effort to build up a nationwide strike...