Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Indianapolis 500 in 1965. Although he was best known for his domination of Grand Prix racing, Clark was recognized as a master of all forms of auto sport. Juan Manuel Fangio, retired Argentine ace, whose record of twenty-four Grand Prix victories Clark broke in January at South Africa, called Clark the greatest driver in the world. Clark preferred to think of himself as a sheep farmer who raced automobiles...
...When Brown arrived on stage he introduced Tom Atkins, one of the few Black politicians in Boston. Brown told the fans that Atkins was the greatest and that they should be proud of him; Atkins reciprocated. Then, as Atkins, in an unnecessarily formal fashion was introducing "The Honorable..." Brown broke in with a more fitting lead in: "When I got into town White called me up and believe me this man is 'Together.' So let's hear it for Swingin Kev." With that the mavor bopped up onto the podium and shook hands with Brown. Saying that he had come...
...character of our socialist sys tem." As for the students' protest against police brutality during the rioting, the paper came straight to the point. "When chopping wood," it said, "splinters must fly." The students got a new ally, how ever, in Poland's Roman Catholic Episcopate, which broke its silence on the outbursts by protesting the government's "brutal use of force...
...students as a whole seem as dangerously irrepressible as ever. Many universities were rimmed with police guards, and the atmosphere at Warsaw University became so threatening that the rector closed it for a day. A group of 200 students decided to meet there anyway, and broke into a lecture hall to pass resolutions demanding reinstatement for the fired professors and military discharges for the drafted students. If they have not received satisfaction by the end of Easter vacation, warned the leaders, they will put out a call for a general strike at all Polish universities...
Arriving at Stockholm airport, Finance Minister Michel Debré stirred more concern by repeating the French demands with embellishments. As the conference opened, club-wielding police broke up a demonstration against the Viet Nam war by 150 young Swedes, some of them carrying signs reading SUPPORT FOR THE DOLLAR IS SUPPORT FOR GENOCIDE and NO CREDITS TO U.S. MURDERERS. Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, chief U.S. delegate, took a back entrance to avoid the melee...