Word: tocsins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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will launch an intensive letter writing campaign this afternoon to win support for President Kennedy's latest disarmament proposal. The ould allow Soviet scientists to inspect obsolete United States nuclear weapons. organization is attempting to get University students sympathetic to the write their Congressmen. Tocsin will provide typewriters and information and tomorrow in its offices in the "B" entry basement of Mather Hall. In . Tocsin personnel will be on hand to aid any students who need help with , a spokesman said...
...support of students at other colleges, the group has also Tocsin sympathizers on campuses throughout New England...
...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...
...demonstration been an ill-conceived and empty protest, the TOCSIN Executive Committee would not have given it formal endorsement. Contrary to the apparent impression of some students. TOCSIN does not have a policy of non-cooperation with other groups. Though differences between TOCSIN and SANE have made autonomy logical for the Harvard group, TOCSIN shares with SANE a desire to organize effective public pressure on specific political issues. In this case, it would have been foolish for TOCSIN to duplicate SANE's excellent study of the Civil Defense Issue...
...develop the capability to absorb a major nuclear strike. Since I cannot discuss these problems in 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...