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...believe it.* He has put on lots of weight lately, but this is the result of the medicine he's taking." Then Mother Guevara set off on the road again; at Tucuman in the Argentine provinces, her presence started a most rewarding brawl. Now she is back in Brazil, where she can count on more rallies, more riots...
Wages Up, Jobs Down. For years, Curran and Hall have waged a Pier 6 brawl with each other for dominance of seagoing labor. Hoping to forge ahead of Hall, Joe Curran this year demanded a 30-hour work week, a 12% package wage increase over four years, and assorted fringes. Hall, not to be outdone, asked management for something much more controversial-the right to bargain for more than 20,000 foreign sailors who man U.S.-owned ships registered abroad. (Curran made the same demand, but passed word that he would drydock it for sweeter wages and hours...
...lately presented the incongruous figure of a Milquetoast engaged in a street brawl. Unwilling to dirty its hands, it has allowed itself to be pushed into the gutter by the left and right of Laos and Cuba. Eventually we will be surely beaten if we do not fight back...
...Peaceful People." Just as bruising was the ordeal of the seven Freedom Riders aboard Bus No. 2, which had trailed several miles behind the lead bus coming into Anniston. In Anniston, eight whites climbed aboard, began roughing up the Freedom Riders before cops broke up the brawl. At Birmingham's Trailways Terminal, another mob charged the bus, swinging fists, blackjacks and lengths of pipe. Although the terminal is just two blocks from Birmingham's police headquarters, the cops were conspicuously absent when the blood began to flow. Said tough, bullfrog-voiced Police Commissioner Eugene ("Bull") Connor later...
...prisoners to the U.S. to discuss the deal. In a grotesque side offer, Castro said he would trade invasion Commander Manuel Artime, 28, for his own man Francisco ("The Hook") Molina, 29, awaiting sentencing in Manhattan for the murder of a nine-year-old Venezuelan girl in a restaurant brawl last September...