Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regulars, more than 50,000 of the civil defense volunteers poured in from all over Biafra to fight at the front. Among these were the warrior Abam people, whose rites of manhood included until recently the acquisition of at least one human head-and whose only complaint was that they were not issued bags to hold the federal heads they hope to take...
...white journalists. Chicago's white dailies had attempted stories on the city's Negro slums, but the Defender's Betty Washington was able to produce a much better account after going to live in the slums for several weeks. Charges of police brutality -the most frequent complaint-are commonplace on Page One. And militancy-within bounds-seems to pay off. By concentrating on civil rights, the bouncy In Sepia Dallas has raised circulation from 5,000 to an estimated 22,500 in three years; by contrast, the bland Dallas Express has slipped from...
...traffic director and to protect the interests of local residents, the City Council also created a three-man traffic appeal board. Presently made up of two lawyers and an executive of the Cambridge Electric Light Company, this board is limited to an advisory role. But if it receives a complaint--signed by 50 or more local residents--against any new traffic regulation, the board is required to hear the views of the citizens and of the traffic direction, and in this situation they have the power to overrule the director...
...where watermelon is king. Last week he toured the Central Valley, a region studded with pulp and paper mills. The week before, he turned up in the high plateau country of the northwest, where he paid a call in Huntsville on Orval Faubus, his predecessor. Instead of lodging a complaint, Citizen Faubus heard one: Rockefeller had not received the past two issues of Faubus' newspaper, the Madison County Record...
...English as well as in European tongues. The bishop likewise alienated conservatives by removing the iconostasis, or screen, which separates the altar from the faithful in Oriental churches, and by shortening Easter services from 4½ to 3½ hours. Elko's firm administrative methods caused further complaint; diocesan clergy accused him of being a ruthless autocrat, who was averse to discussing problems with priests. Although Ruthenians outside the U.S. are permitted to ordain married men as priests, Elko ignored clerics' complaints and stuck to the letter of a papal decree imposing celibacy on American Ruthenian priests...