Word: dockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Public concern and Presidential indignation, however, have focused largely on the melodrama of strikes rather than on the tragedy of unemployment. The newspaper dispute, the East Coast dock strike, and a prospective walkout by the rail-road employees served to evoke the image of "featherbedding" by reactionary union leaders (ironically, the Typographers' rank-and-file now demand more advantageous terms than Mr. Powers had settled...
...dock of a tiny, drab Tel Aviv courtroom, head buried in his hands, sat the assistant conductor of the Israel National Opera. Hirsch Barenblat. 48, former commander of the Jewish police in Bedzin. Poland. For two years after he managed to get to Israel in 1958. Barenblat attracted no particular attention. Then, during introductions at a concert in a kibbutz, a member of the audience suddenly leaped up and shouted: "Barenblat, I remember you! You murdered Jews!" The concert broke up amidst angry confusion. In 1961, after a police investigation. Barenblat was arrested and charged under the Israeli law punishing...
...cost-plus-fixed-fee contracts, which guarantee a set profit regardless of how badly a company misses its delivery dates or its cost estimates. In their place, the Pentagon is increasingly signing fixed-price and incentive contracts, which reward companies with extra profit if they do well but dock them if they fall down. The Hebert act, recently passed by Congress, enables the Pentagon to delve deeply into the books of a defense supplier if he won a contract without competitive bidding, to make sure that cost estimates are accurate...
Died. Anthony ("Tough Tony") Anastasio, 57, boss of the Brooklyn docks, a ship-jumping Italian immigrant who shrewdly used the muscle of his brother, Murder Inc.'s Chief Executioner Albert Anastasia, to get to the top, then surprised everyone by staying there (and staying alive) even after Al's gangland murder in 1957; after a long illness; in Brooklyn. Charged with everything up to and including murder but never convicted, Tough Tony gained the grudging respect of dock employers as well as union men by getting the work done and increasing pay, fringe benefits and job opportunities...
...publicity they wanted, and publicity they got. Some 50 newsmen, photographers and government officials crowded the dock at Pôrto de Santana, a steamy little town on the north channel of Brazil's Amazon delta. Then up the river it came: Venezuela's hijacked freighter Anzoátegui (TIME, Feb. 22). On the deck stood a triumphant Wismar Medina Rojas, 28, and his eight fellow hijackers-all members of Venezuela's Castroite Armed Forces of National Liberation...