Word: vigils
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Memorial services in all Cambridge Churches followed by a procession to Cambridge Common for vigil and candle-watch. Evening Peace-In. Harvard Yard...
...signs and the rhetoric with which the steps of City Hall were filled during the Cambridge Housing Convention's vigil there all the story well. There seemed to be no middle ground for those pushing for rent control. A poster pictured the hands of nine city councillors: the hands of the four councillors who voted for the housing convention's rent control ordinance are clean; those of the five opposed are splattered with blood. As housing convention vice-chairman Bill Joyce saw it, the four backed "the little people of Cambridge," while the five voted for "rent gougers, speculators, banks...
...housing convention, a citizens group formed last fall to ask for low income housing in Cambridge, has continued its vigil on the City Hall steps throughout last week and into this week. From the vigil have come continued calls for passage of the rent control ordinance, and defeat of a rent grievance board (or stabilization) board proposed by the City Manager...
...Geneva trip was something of a disappointment. Except for an open-air evening Mass celebrated by the Pope in the Pare de la Grange, where 60,000 people showed up, the crowds were amazingly small. Some Protestant traditionalists showed their displeasure at the visit by holding a prayer vigil at the supposed site of Calvin's grave, and nine Presbyterian ministers picketed World Council headquarters with signs saying "No peace with Rome" shortly before the Pope's arrival. The major threat to the peace of the day-a planned demonstration by Ulster's militant Rev. Ian Paisley...
...that threatens humanity. For the Russians, who have so long regarded themselves as the providers of aid and arms to other Communist countries, the response has been deeply dis appointing. Requests for token military units or even observers to come to Siberia to join the Red Army in its vigil on the long, lonely border have reportedly been refused. No other Communists want to be caught in the thrashings of the two giants...