Word: underpass
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Bernays became outraged, denounced the chief MDC engineer, Benjamin, Fink, as a stooge, and urged the launching of a massive anti-underpass campaign...
Rallying public opinion behind the anti-underpass cause is an exercise in what Bernays refers to as "the engineering of consent." In order to do this successfully in a democracy, Bernays explains, one must view society as a sociologist views...
Mothers were determined that the drive was recreation space for their children; and they made the power of the perambulator heard in subsequent MDC underpass hearings. Conservation groups were alerted...
...news media, publicity spread faster than cracks in a Massachusetts highway. Time ran a half-page feature beginning "Stretching its wheelbase, spreading its strack, strapping its concrete hands across the land, the automobile inches humanity back and back...." Life supported the anti-underpass campaign in an editorial decrying poor urban planning...
...marchers had plenty of protection-from some 1,000 military police sent by President Johnson, from 1,900 federalized Alabama National Guards men, from platoons of U.S. marshals and FBI men. Miles ahead of the marchers, demolition experts searched each bridge, each underpass. Rifle-bearing troops were stationed at every crossroad along the route. Long before the demonstrators arrived at their overnight bivouacs, a thin line of soldiers swept cautiously across each field to check for mines, bombs or booby traps...