Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...saying, "We know that there are some persons on the campus who are not telling all they know about the murder and we intend to find out just who's holding back." The three students are charged with conspiracy to arson (police claim that they were about to burn the gym and a women's dorm) and possession of explosives. Tigner is also charged with "felonious assault," but no one has yet been charged with murder...
...Earn or Burn. Sadly, ghetto joblessness is rising at a time when summer job programs, launched with much public hoopla, are falling far short of their marks. Overall, the Administration had hoped that a concerted federal, state and private effort could turn up 1.5 million jobs for ghetto youths this summer. So far, federal agencies have found jobs for 646,000, more than last summer's 571,000 but still not enough. The National Alliance of Businessmen, a 60-company group headed by Henry Ford II, aims to find jobs for 200,000, has so far placed only...
...trimming of a New York City job program that last summer employed 23,000 teenagers, some 1,500 youths descended upon Mayor John Lindsay's City Hall office in protest. In a three-hour near-riot, they smashed car windows and shouted some new slogans, including "Earn or burn" and "Sock it to my pocket." Lindsay denounced the ruckus as "disgraceful," then announced that the city would ante up some $5,000,000 that had been previously earmarked for the program...
...tunnels and dams in line during construction. Laser light has also proved helpful in aligning jet-plane assembly operations and the two-mile-long Stanford linear accelerator. When the high energy of laser light is concentrated on a small area, it serves as a high-speed drill that can burn precision holes through materials as hard as diamonds in a small fraction of the time required by conventional methods. It can vaporize the rough edges of such microscopically small products as integrated circuits. A less powerful laser beam can weld wires and other delicate metallic parts without damaging nearby heat...
...nothing else, friend Glassen clearly won the Loudmouth of the Week Award. I might even burn my N.R.A membership card...