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...Shame" in London's Old Bailey last week, British Judge Sir Cecil Havers sentenced six youthful nuclear disarmers to prison. Their offense: an abortive attempt last December to organize a huge sitdown demonstration on the runways of the U.S. Strategic Air Command's nuclear strike base at Wethersfield, Essex...
...their ban-the-bomb views. But painstakingly, Attorney General Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller (nicknamed by detractors "Sir Reginald Bullying Manner"), stressed that the issue of the trial was not the political or moral beliefs of the defendants, but the fact that in trying to crash the gates of the Wethersfield base, they had conspired to violate Britain's Official Secrets Act. Backing him up, the bench brushed aside the defendants' attempts to question witnesses on ethical rather than on factual grounds. One such witness was U.S. Scientist Linus Pauling, an ardent ban-the-bomber who had flown...
...Trafalgar Square, though many cut in only for the last few miles. Parents pushing baby carriages, barefoot teenagers, businessmen and clergymen, there were more marchers than ever before-some 14,000-and this year another batch began its assault on London from another direction, outside the gates at Wethersfield, site of a U.S. Air Force base. In kilts and quilts, tights and jeans, marching to bagpipes and jazz, they ranged from beatniks to such U-types as socialite Penelope Gilliatt, Sunday Observer film critic and wife of Antony Armstrong-Jones's best man and five Eton schoolboys carrying...
...Wethersfield, Conn...
Second Marshal will be Alice C. Pepper '59, of Moors Hall and New York City; Third Marshal, Nancy L. Proger '59, of comstock Hall and Brookline; Fourth Marshal, Anne H. Layzer '59, of Cambridge and Chestnut Hill; and Fifth Marshal, Jean L. Anderson '59, of Whitman Hall and Wethersfield, Conn...