Word: agee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Witch Hunt. Lewis was born to his job. His father, an immigrant miner from Wales, was blacklisted by his company's management for his role in a bitter, late-19th century strike John L. quit school before he finished the eighth grade, and by age 15 he had followed his father to the pits. In Colorado he mined coal. Then it was copper in Montana, silver in Utah, gold in Arizona. In 1911, Lewis went to work for Samuel Gompers, then president of the American Federation of Labor and the greatest labor tactician of the era. Because he could...
...July 26, 1967, when Detroit writhed in the grip of the decade's worst ghetto riot. He was one of three policemen who, with state troopers and National Guardsmen, rushed into the Algiers Motel seeking a reported sniper. They rounded up nine young Negro men and two teen-age white prostitutes. When the lawmen left, three of the Negroes were dead. August admitted shotgunning Auburey Pollard, 19, but claimed self-defense. He was charged with first-degree murder. Last week an all-white jury took the white patrolman's word...
...crippled, stood defiant. "The Gibraltarians are making do," TIME Correspondent John Blashill reported from the Rock. "They are pitching in, answering the call, much as their British cousins did during the Blitz. The Navy dockyards are functioning. Essential services are working. Shop owners have put their wives and teen-age children behind the counters. The men of two British battalions are filling in where needed: hauling cement, unloading ships, baking bread, even serving at times as busboys and waiters in the tourist hotels...
...age of decolonialization, Gibraltar and its 25,000 people-descendants of immigrants who came from as far away as Genoa, Malta, Arab countries and India-hold an anachronistic loyalty to Britain. Two years ago, they voted 12,138 to 44 in favor of staying British, and posters still enjoin: KEEP GIBRALTAR TIDY-KEEP IT BRITISH. Gibraltar has virtual freeport status, and its tidy bazaar economy caters to an average 2,200 tourists a day. Britain has committed a million pounds sterling to building a water-distillation plant and housing for married servicemen...
...last year-and 81% of the exemptions were granted. West Berlin, where residents are draft-exempt, is increasingly used as an asylum for young men who want to avoid military service. They stay there as students or workers until they pass draft age. In recent weeks, three Bundeswehr officers-two of whom held sensitive positions-have defected to East Germany. There is an increase of minor sabotage, consisting largely of motor damage and destruction of weapon parts...