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...very distressed by the CRIMSON'S article on the Civil Defense demonstrations and by the response of certain students to the fact that TOCSIN formally cooperated with Boston SANE on this demonstration. The article gave a very inaccurate impression of the tone of the picketing: the SANE demonstration was as well-planned and serious as the TOCSIN walk. While it is true that one sign out of the approximately fifty informed passers-by that "Man is not a mole," the placards were on the whole brief statements of issues regarding disarmament, civil defense, and the Framingham shelter program. The vignettes...
...detail here; I invite the interested to read the speeches on Civil Defense of Senator Young and Governor Meyner of New Jersey and the SANE memorandum on the Framingham shelter, posted in the TOCSIN office, basement of B-entry Quincy House. (I invite them as well to join the picket line next Wednesday at 4:00 p.m. in front of the State House.) Robert Weil Chairman of TOCSIN
Responding to the lead of southern integrationists, a crowd of nearly 100 braved below freezing temperatures to picket the Metropolitan Theatre in downtown Boston yesterday afternoon. The picketing, sponsored by EPIC, was part of a nationwide Lincoln's Birthday protest against theatres in the ABC-Paramount chain--a chain that operates segregated theatres in the South...
Despite the sometimes shabby appearacne of the picket lines and the tattered condition of some of the home-made signs, the demonstraters maintained a high level of enthusiasm. They sang steadily through the two and a half hour demonstration, creating an old-time revivalist atmosphere. Favorite selections included "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "We Shall overpower," and Pete Seeger's "This Land is Your Land...
Exodus Shrugged. The campus conservatives subdivide into roughly three groups. On the far right is a small fringe of shouting, demonstrating fanatics who admire the late Joe McCarthy, favor colonialism, back such causes as the "right" to exclude Negroes from certain neighborhoods, demand that students sign loyalty oaths, picket the movies Spartacus and Exodus because Dalton Trumbo (TIME, Jan. 2) wrote them. They take as their philosopher Novelist Ayn (Atlas Shrugged) Rand, who for a brooch wears a gold dollar sign to symbolize the values of selfcenteredness. On the other end of the spectrum are Kennedy supporters who find...