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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...refer to the Molly McGuires as "a band of Pennsylvania miners who assassinated fellow workers and bosses alike." I wish to advise that as a student of their history and direct descendant of the county delegate of Schuylkill County, at no time did I ever come across any incident of violence attributable to the Molly McGuires where they were known to have assassinated a fellow worker or boss to gain better pay and working conditions per se. Rather, the individuals who were slain had the misfortune at the time to be of Dutch, Welsh, and/or English descent and fell prey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Aug. 18, 1967 | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...them with his straightforward, purposeful approach. "I don't think there is a single legislator who doesn't like Governor Reagan as an individual," said Assembly Republican Caucus Chairman Don Mulford. He has held regular weekly press conferences, submitted to innumerable interviews and gone on television with direct, "state of the state" reports to explain his actions to Californians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: Fast Start | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

Chopper Armor. As protection against shrapnel, which inflicts 80% of all wartime wounds, U.S. troops now wear 10-lb. nylon felt vests. Davis claims that his 8-lb., all-nylon version wards off not only shrapnel, but also direct hits from small arms up to .38 caliber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Technology: Stopping Bullets with Nylon | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...citizens shot in the streets when they refused to line up for Israeli inspections. "Nothing like that has happened yet," a Gaza lawyer said with a distinct lack of optimism. Everywhere building showed some signs of the past conflict; one of the hotels where I stopped had taken a direct hit form an Israeli dive bomber-everyone had been shaken by the ferocity of the Israeli fire-power. At almost every major intersection burnt-out tanks faced each other, frozen for immortality in their last pugnacious stance. Amusingly enough both the Israeli and the Egyptian tanks were identical--except...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Impressions from Israel | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

...interesting to note that Jordan and South Vietnam are the only two countries to which the U.S. gives direct budget aid; while pushing through Jordan, Israelis found stock piles of recoiling rifle ammunition given to the Jordanians under the Point-Four program and still bearing the "hands-clasped seal" of the U.S. It must also e remembered, however, that in Sinai the Israelis ran up against Russian tanks which are so modern that they haven't even been introduced into the Russian Army, as well as at least nine Russian Surface to Air missiles...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Impressions from Israel | 8/11/1967 | See Source »

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