Word: vigilance
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...Senior Class Committee has urged attendance at the candlelight peace vigil Wednesday night near the statue of John Harvard. It asked that the community regard Commencement as a ceremony "acted out under the ominous shadow of national and international conflict, suffering, and injustice...
Members of a "non-violent vigil"- strikers who opposed this tactic and students who oppose the strike-were at University Hall well before the picket line...
...male on the scene, Downe's Family Weekly research director, Eli Belil, was moved to retort: "Turn yourself off, baby. If you don't like the magazine, don't read it." Undaunted, an obstinate group of 30 hunkered down to a day-long vigil in Editor John Mack Carter's office. Although he had learned of the visitation a day in advance, the only precaution the editor had taken was to wear a TV-blue shirt for the occasion. He also demonstrated extraordinary patience by hearing the suffragettes out for some eleven hours...
...other students from Harvard, it became clear that everyone expected trouble. Some were wearing crash helmets and others who wore glasses had remembered to bring along an extra pair. Vague plans had been laid to spend the night at the Pentagon, but no one really knew if the vigil was going to come off. There was a good deal of speculation about what kind of people had showed up and how they would react under stress. Spiegel was not pleased with the hippies and was afraid that they would make a joke out of the confrontation. "The authorities really know...
Outside the CIS about 50 faculty and student members of the M.I.T. political science department and of the CIS stood in a "vigil for free speech...