Word: tripped
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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There they go, brandishing Bible verses, preaching of doomsday, urging man to repent. A new fundamentalist sect? No, a small but growing band of church scholars on an "eco-trip"-seeking theological underpinning for the ecology crusade...
...center stage for the new action was Atlanta, a city which bills itself with some justice as "too busy to hate." There, some 150 weary protesters ended a 120-mile bus-and-walking trip from Perry, Ga., in what its S.C.L.C. organizers called a "march against repression." Following symbolic coffins and two mules nicknamed "Nixon" and "Lester," the marchers arrived after four days of uneventful travel under a blistering sun to be joined by some 9,000 noisy, but nonviolent advocates of "soul power" in the biggest civil rights rally in the South since...
...many of the lawyers, the trip to Washington began at Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station at the unaccustomed hour of 6:30 a.m. Boarding eight special cars, the attorneys spent most of the four-hour trip reviewing carefully prepared briefing packages that included biographies of the Congressmen they were to see and legal arguments against Nixon's action in Cambodia. In keeping with legal procedures, the papers were labeled Exhibits...
...many, the trip was an initiation into the politics of protest. "This is the first time I've ever done anything," said Seymour Hertz, 37, a specialist in corporate and securities law. "I'm just frightened by what's happening in this country; Viet Nam isn't worth it." Most regarded the visit to Washington as a unique opportunity to get their ideas on the war across to the Government. "We're lawyers, not longhairs," said Randy Bevis, 29, a member of Thomas Dewey's law firm. "We're respectable, and I think...
Despite the failure of their proselytizing efforts, the lawyers felt that their trip was not wasted. Since 1940, New York law firms have provided the country with seven top Cabinet officers and scores of second-echelon officials. The fact that these same firms are now swelling the ranks of the Government's opposition should provide dissenting members of the Administration with fresh ammunition that Nixon's policies have split even the most established of the Establishment...