Word: hecklers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House of Representatives and 20 years as Republican leader, went down to defeat in the G.O.P. primary at the hands of an aggressive woman candidate who based her campaign on the same youth-v.-age attack that Martin had used to win his first election. Hennahaired Mrs. Margaret Heckler, 35, a pert, petite (5 ft. 21 in.) lawyer-housewife from Boston's upper-class suburb of Wellesley, tossed Martin's own 1924 quotes back at him with the comment: "If the country needed vigorous service in those years, certainly today it demands even greater vigor." Peggy Heckler...
Heckling is an honored British tradition, and Wilson, for one, thrives on quick parries with dissenters. At a recent rally, when a heckler shouted "Rubbish!" Wilson shot back: "We'll take up your special interest in a moment, sir." But neither Wilson nor anyone else could always cope with the current ragging. Every major candidate had been shouted down repeatedly, and the Labor Party temporarily barred from its rallies a BBC television crew that was filming a documentary on hecklers on the grounds that being on-camera only inspires more extreme behavior...
...C.D.U. was cannily working both sides of the street. But the S.P.D. could also make a little political capital out of Adenauer's blast, insisting that it showed a split in C.D.U. ranks. Brandt is not exactly a magnetic speaker, but he was able to silence one heckler-packed audience in Heidelberg by stepping up to the mike and declaring, "Dear friends and opponents, so that the rest of us will know where we are, will the opponents please divide into those who are for Erhard and those who are for Adenauer...
...long before Bogalusa's civil rights crisis occurred, openly sport pistols and rifles. For months, Deacons have exchanged shots and punches with white roughnecks. In June night riders murdered one Negro deputy sheriff and seriously wounded another. Two weeks ago, a Deacon shot and critically wounded a white heckler during a civil rights demonstration...
...napalm or gas do to a person when used in Viet Nam?" Said he: "The gas you speak of is a misnomer as we normally understand gas. It is better described as an incapacitating agent, one already in use in the United States by police and Army . . ." Yelled a heckler: "Does it work against Negroes?" Continued Hillman: "To answer the rest of the question, what does napalm do? It burns...