Word: torchlight
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That stirred a controversy, but it was nothing compared with the uproar that followed his February 1968 march through Stockholm's streets shoulder to shoulder with the North Vietnamese ambassador to Moscow, during a torchlight parade protesting U.S. involvement in the Viet Nam war. In a speech to the protesters, Palme claimed that democracy in Viet Nam was "represented in a considerably higher degree by the National Liberation Front than by the U.S. and its allied juntas." Swedes in general oppose the war, but the manner of Palme's gesture blew up a storm. Conservative Swedes were furious...
...torchlight parade, complete with bands and limousines, will greet the opening of Cambridge's newest movie theatre, the Orson Welles Cinema, at 7 p.m. tonight. The Cambridge City Council has joined in the celebration by declaring today "Orson Welles Day," in honor of the noted American Filmmaker...
...second Myth imparts a little less rosy glow to the South. This is the myth of the Redneck South, the South of Klan rallies, midnight lynchings, and torchlight processions. This dream has George Wallace as its star, not Thomas Jefferson. The supporting cast is made up of illiterate brutes and lumbering semi-humans who blindly destroy any thinking creature...
...Issue. Wickman, 44, is one of two leading candidates to succeed wily Prime Minister Tage Erlander, 67, if he makes good his promise to retire next year. The other is brash Education Minister Olof Palme, 41, who stirred up a storm last winter when he marched in a torchlight parade with North Viet Nam's Ambassador to Moscow to protest the U.S. bombing. Like Palme, most Swedes oppose Washington's Viet Nam policy. Sweden's own foreign policy, however, was never an issue in the campaign. After all, Sweden's traditional neutrality has kept...
...early for the next night's program, will be few and far between. "Why should you hold a rally for 15,000 or 20,000 people," says one top aide, "when with TV you can get the whole state?" Evening banquets will go the way of torchlight parades. "All you get at banquets are drunks and fat cats," adds the adviser. "And banquets are the worst possible kind of TV. There is no rhyme or reason for it to be done, so it won't be. At night, Nixon rests." Agnew will be kept mostly...