Word: ax
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Administration," says President Robinson F. Barker of PPG Industries. "Sure, you can keep surtaxing and surtaxing until we're surtaxed to death," says President A. Clark Daugherty of Rockwell Manufacturing Co., "but it won't help unless federal spending is cut." The difficulty about wielding an ax on the budget, noted Chairman Roger Blough of U.S. Steel Corp. last week, is that "nobody has come forward with a list of priorities that would command a consensus." Blough's somewhat idealistic recommendation: political support for "elected officials who vote to cut government spending even if this affects...
Abortive Assault. When the main force arrived, its good humor had begun to fray. An assault squad wielding clubs and ax handles probed the rope barriers in front of the Pentagon entrances, taunting and testing white-hatted federal marshals who stood in close ranks along the line. After 90-odd minutes of steadily rising invective and roiling around in the north parking lot of the Pentagon, flying wedges of demonstrators surged toward the less heavily defended press entrance...
When Lester Maddox became Governor of Georgia. Carl Sanders provided him with a speech writing team that produced a shockingly moderate inaugural address. Ever since, Lester has baffled politicians to the left and the right. What happened to the pistol-waving racist who in 1965 led whites with ax handles against Negroes who approached his Pickrick Restaurant? What prompted him to brag that his administration had increased welfare payment? Why did he appoint 15 Negroes to local draft boards? It was a disconcerting reversal...
...only to be forced back. On the fourth try, he succeeded. "The door's open!" he cried. "Come out, boys, come on out!" He pulled several out himself, suffering burns on his face and back. Some staggered out on their own. Flames kept others from the exit, and ax-wielding guards and convicts frantically chopped a hole in the wall. "For God's sake, men," sobbed one of the rescued convicts, "come out." Only 16 did-and of those, three died later and five were injured...
...case. Even ardent "segs" have enjoyed an occasional tete-a-tete with a well-dressed, soft-spoken Courier reporter. (Exception: A team of reporters covering the first civil rights demonstration in Ft. Deposit, not far from Selma, were surrounded by white mobs twice; a county voting examiner smashed an ax handle through their car windshield; and five carloads of toughs followed them out of town.) A drugstore owner in Linden bought a copy of the paper from two reporters, remarking, "Course, I make up my own mind, but I've heard from people I respect--sheriffs and all--that this...