Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bullet. At nine p.m., a few blocks away, Mayor Lindsay entered Frank's Restaurant for a scheduled meeting with community leaders. Just before 10 p.m. as the Mayor left the neighborhood, 30 white demonstrators from the Society for the Prevention of Negroes Getting Everything (SPONGE) chased 25 Negro counter-demonstrators for several blocks. A few minutes later, a sniper shot and killed an 11-year-old Negro boy from the roof of a near-by building...
Lisser's exit under pressure brought on a well-deserved counter-revolt. All but two of the 55-member I.S. 201 faculty-including its 26 Negroes-refused to teach under anyone except Lisser. Assistant Principal Beryl Banfield, a Negro named to replace him, indignantly declined, because, she said, "I object to being chosen on the basis of color, not competence...
Longshoremen in San Francisco, refusing to handle scab products, let a $300,000 shipment of Schenley's grapes rot on the docks. During the winter the California growers began a counter-boycott against those merchants who refused to carry Schenley products, a good indication that the boycott was beginning to squeeze...
...Philippines and South Korea, though expectable American allies, have both shown their confidence in U.S. determination by sending troops to Viet Nam. Thailand has given the use of airbases to the U.S. while moving vigorously, with American help, to counter Communist insurgency in its troubled northeastern provinces. At the other extreme, Indonesia, not long ago-Peking's most belligerent camp follower, has turned on its own Communist Party, ousted it from influence and well-nigh annihilated it. This, in turn, has led to the end of the Indonesian-Malaysian confrontation that for so long kept that part of Asia...
Temporary Blindness. Only minutes after he emerged from Gemini's open hatch, Astronaut Gordon was in trou ble. Though he had done nothing more than detach a cosmic-ray counter from the spacecraft's hull and mount a movie camera on a bracket behind the hatch, his heart was beating wildly, he was bathed in perspiration and panting for breath. "I've got to rest a minute," he gasped. "I'm pooped." After regaining his breath, he inched forward to Gemini's nose, which was securely locked in the docking collar of the Agena target...