Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tyree and Mitchell entered the restaurant at about 1:30 a.m. and asked for a cup of coffee. According to others in the Bick at the time, Matthew Giacappa, the policeman on duty, told the man behind the counter not to serve Tyree...
...that some of the proceeds from "It's a Small World-A Salute to UNICEF" ride at the World's Fair go to the United Nations Children's Fund. UNICEF benefits from Pepsi-Cola generosity in the form of free land, an exhibit, and a sales counter staffed by volunteers. These are an outright donation-but not the proceeds of Walt Disney's delightful ride...
When rightwing organizations mounted a counter campaign and 1,000 protesting letters rolled in from smalltown businessmen, the sponsors nervously softened their proposal by writing into it their disapproval of granting long-term credits to the Communists. As it turned out, they overestimated the opposition. Only one Chamber chapter (from White Plains, N.Y.) voted against the proposal, and a group of leaders-including Edwin Neilan-wanted to go even farther by specifically endorsing trade with Red China...
...Holmes, an active opposition attempted to discourage potential fasters. Thirty five girls initiated a counter-petition, which asserted that "We definitely support SNCC but cannot endorse the method and the precedent that would be set by RGA." One signer evidently considered even the counter-petition too extreme and substituted "probably" for "definitely...
...Zanzibar would be 300 bullyboys armed with automatic rifles who take orders from Peking-leaning Foreign Minister Abdul Rahman Mohamed, and it is "Babu" who wants Moderate Karume's job. Alarmed, Karume flew to Dar es Salaam to plead with Nyerere, who listened sympathetically and offered a counter proposal: let Zanzibar immediately merge with Tanganyika...