Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Laborites began criticiz ing him for failure to halt inflation or push toward the Common Market. The party's left wing hacked at Wilson for not nationalizing steel, for taking too tough an attitude toward the seamen's wage demands in Britain's five-week-old dock strike, and for backing the U.S. in Viet Nam and continuing to maintain Britain's large contingent of troops "east of Suez" in Southeast Asia. A broad middle-of-the-road band of M.P.s chimed in, too, complaining that Wilson had hardly provided the "firm and purposive government" that...
...same time, the Coop was admitting quietly that Dietz was partly right. It changed its plans to show the annex set back from the street, as Dietz had suggested. An off-street truck loading dock that Dietz had also wound up in the Coop plans...
...protesting had began to sour. Earlier this year, Dietz said that the Coop should be kicked out of its nearly completed annex because it didn't have a temporary off-street loading dock for trucks. Then the Coop countered with photos of trucks unloading on a wooden platform next to the building. Then Dietz charged that the photos were staged and that the platform was normally blocked by construction machinery. Then the Coop displayed affidavits from truck drivers who said that they had used the dock. Then Dietz produced an affidavit from someone in his office who said that...
Radcliffe uglifies the English language by agreeing to let 20 girls Ive off.off-campus. Sheldon Diets accuses the Harvard Cooperative Society of lying about is loading dock. A survey shows that although Harvard freshmen date twice as much as freshmen in other Ivy schools, only half of the Class of '69 is happy with its social life...
...student's cigarette starts a $135,000 early-morning fire in the new section of Quincy House. Four suites are destroyed; no one is injured, but at least five locks on emergency doors fall to function. Sheldon Diets wins a partial victory in the loading-dock controversy; he says it proves "we're neither crackpots nor troublemakers...