Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life," he would run for the Governor's office being vacated this year by John Connally. Abruptly last week the maverick Democrat appeared on 26 Texas television stations to withdraw his largesse. McLendon has decided that "our nation is without leadership, and you and I are going broke." Therefore he disdains to lead Lyndon Johnson's state out of the morass. He did, however, offer the President some advice. The U.S., he said, must abandon all of its commitments abroad, become a neutralist nation and henceforth leave attempts to solve the world's headaches to the Communists...
...curtailment of working hours, there is far less economic activity. Some 20 freighters, for example, are lined up in the river waiting to be unloaded. The lack of these imports means fewer jobs, smaller pay packets. Partly because of the slowdown, hundreds of small businessmen have gone broke. As a result, the Saigonese have less money to spend at a time when they need it most just to keep alive...
...Feet. The meeting of delegates from 67 countries had hardly been called to order in the Hotel Gellert's ornate dining room when Mikhail Suslov, head of the Russian delegation and the Kremlin's chief ideologue, broke the first promise by launching a bitter attack on Mao Tse-tung's "slander campaign" against the conference. It also became quickly apparent that Moscow had already decided on the time and the place-November or December in Moscow-for a full-dress Communist summit meeting, and expected only a dutiful seconding from the Budapest assembly. As if all this...
...nation's restive school teachers continue to display their fighting mood. As a statewide walkout in Florida went into its second week, new teacher strikes broke out in Pittsburgh and San Francisco and tension grew in Oklahoma and South Dakota. Teachers in Albuquerque went back to work, ending a six-day strike-but only after winning a commitment from New Mexico officials to seek more money for schools...
...teachers to influence educational policy than to join a union, and to a flat refusal by the city's school board to bargain with the union. San Francisco school officials first claimed that California law prevented them from dealing with a union, later relented, but the talks broke off as the union made 92 demands, claimed that Superintendent Robert Jenkins was moving too slowly on the negotiations...