Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this merely solidified the union. The mayor's pleas for help from other city employees were immediately rebuffed. On the strike's seventh day, Lindsay was forced to turn to his fellow liberal Republican, Governor Nelson Rockefeller. The mayor wanted the National Guard called in to clean up the city, and Rockefeller was the only man who could...
...Correspondent Max Frankel was implicit. Top journalistic talent is hard to find these days, and the loss of such stars was too much to risk. Punch Sulzberger capitulated, agreed to reverse his decision. Greenfield resigned, shook hands all round and walked out of the Times without even bothering to clean out his desk. Behind him he left a rather dazed group of New York editors and a Washington-bureau staff that greeted the news of Punch's reversal with cheers...
...standards, however, are distinctly middle-class. Even if he comes through airport customs, where his application will be accepted immediately, there is at least a two-month delay in a ruling on it. During that period he must keep his nose clean...
...shaggy mantle. Last week the five tousled youngsters swept in and out of Anaheim, Calif., for their first American appearances, taped a couple of guest shots on the Smothers Brothers and Laugh-In TV shows, and relaxed in a Beverly Hills hotel to count their money and think clean...
Paul Cowan's article raises one over-riding issue; the role of the committed man in an imperfect world. Only for those who fight in Vietnam today, or with equal full time vigor oppose the war, is the moral stance toward peace quite clean. But what of the committed Volunteer in an imperfect Peace Corps, the Vista Volunteer beneath a bigoted mayor, believers in peace in a time of war? All face the dilemma of hippiedom, the choice between the scars of participation and the righteousness of abstention. All must ask if progress toward peace is advanced or retarded...