Word: broking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause a riot that we backed off at first and let a riot develop," admits Reddin, who was then a deputy chief. "Using accepted practice on the second day, we isolated the area, reasoning that the rioters would riot themselves out and go home. So what happened? Other riots broke out in other areas." In the end, the insurrection encompassed a region roughly the size of San Francisco. There was little liaison with other agencies, particularly the National Guard, and commanders often could not communicate with patrol cars because their radios operated on different frequencies...
...player demands, including increases in the guaranteed minimum salary (to $12,000 for second-year men, $13,000 for third-year men), payments for preseason exhibition games ($500 per game) and such minor benefits as air conditioning in the training-camp barracks. But on the 22nd point-pensions-negotiations broke down. Determined to show its muscle, the N.F.L. Players Association, headed by Detroit Lions Guard John Gordy, ordered its 600 members not to report to their training camps. The owners retaliated by closing down the camps, and professional sport had its first strike since 1890 - when baseball players walked...
Alexander, who graduated from Temple University and broke through Philadelphia's color line to become a respected radio newsman, has been going out with both whites and blacks for ten years. He notices an encouraging change in the attitudes of the community. "A couple of years back, I don't know if it took courage to walk about Philadelphia with a white girl, but you could sense the uneasiness. I don't feel that nervousness any more...
When in November Richard Nixon fell to defeat for what must have seemed to him an unbearable last time, he broke out crying to the press the reason for his loss. He did not cite Humphrey's brilliant "folksiness" on the debates. Instead he quoted from a scholarly work by a Harvard professor which documented in 700 pages America's unkind feelings towards musicians (long-haired, sexual deviates...) and announced that he was entering a career as a concert pianist...
...They broke the pattern only once, seemingly unable to resist a Fourth of July attack somewhere on U.S. troops. Early on the Fourth, they opened up with a 500-round mortar and rocket barrage on Dau Tieng, a U.S. fire base 38 miles northwest of Saigon. They followed up the barrage with a ground assault, but were repelled by a quickly assembled crew of U.S. infantrymen, cooks, clerks and drivers. For their part, allied forces probed the countryside around the capital in sweeps and ambushes, but turned up mostly arms and ammunition. They have found several important caches...