Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unsoothed by a summer's vacation, the nation's restive schoolteachers last week faced the reopening of classes in a belligerent mood of complaint and protest. Last-minute compromises prevented strikes that would have shut down the school systems of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Toledo. Teachers did go on strike in East St. Louis, Ill., as well as in scattered school districts from Rhode Island to Utah, including 16 districts in Michigan...
...learned to put a muzzle on his mouth or at least to temper his cracks. He still insists that "Tiger Stadium is the worst in the league," but now, instead of simply railing that "Detroit fans are the worst I've ever seen," he is careful to limit his complaint to "some" Detroit fans. Even so, he has been belligerent enough to inspire one of those fans to wire a smoke bomb to the engine of Sharyn's car. The bomb was a dud, but it blew the lid off Denny's volcanic temper once again. Says Denny with solemn...
...therefore all the more shocking that the SEC complaint accused Merrill Lynch of accepting a payoff for its stock tip to big investors. This consisted in part of "give-ups" on shares subsequently traded by the 15 institutions, the SEC charged. A give-up is a practice by which a large investor orders the broker executing a transaction to split his commission with other brokers, in this case with Merrill Lynch. Give-ups have long been under SEC fire. The agency contends that such fee splitting means that brokers' commissions are unduly large on big-volume deals. In their...
...number of Eastern medical schools have recognized the justice of Harris' complaint. They are now accepting Negro and Puerto Rican applicants whose admission-test scores would have been considered too low for other candidates, and plan to give them special tutoring to help them catch up. Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx is giving free make-up courses between undergraduate college and med school. New York Medical College has set up a Medstart Committee to recruit interested Negroes and Puerto Ricans. New York University found itself this summer, for the first time in 30 years, with...
...counting delegates, Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko was tallying the prostitutes. Despite the Republican Party's dedication to law and order, said Royko, only one of the girls had been pinched, legally. Said an aide to the Miami Beach police chief: "We have not had a single complaint, so their service must be satisfactory." Agnes Ash of Women's Wear Daily noted the plight of Ben Novack, owner of the Hotel Fontainebleau. "The Republicans aren't spending any money," he groused. "I'm not making a dime out of this convention." Outfitted in his "double...