Word: effective
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...polarizing effect of the Battle of Michigan Avenue spread everywhere. Speaking before the International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany declared: "I know what you'd do with that dirty-necked, dirty-mouthed group." It troubles few workingmen nowadays that the American labor movement was founded upon protests, strikes and sometimes bloody battles with police...
...fortune in LSD into reservoirs" with the hope of turning on the Democratic Convention. But their plans fizzled out, said Combat, when the chlorinated water neutralized the LSD. An item more colorful than correct, since there are no reservoirs in Chicago, and the LSD would have had no effect anyway. Combat also found it significant that Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther who is the presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party, was invited to lecture to a group of summer trainees at the Xerox Corp. Cleaver told his audience to "liberate" a Xerox machine or two for the Panthers...
...trustees decreed, as long as they "agree to abstain for the period of the inquiry from any activities which are inconsistent with the pronouncements of the ordinary teaching authority established in the church-above all, that of the Holy Father." Teachers "unprepared to accept these conditions" will, in effect, be placed on suspension during the inquiry...
That Mess. This summer the city was shocked to find that Topeka State's psychiatric aides had staged, in effect, a one-day strike. They did not call it a strike, but an "administrative takeover," and they stayed on the job for twelve hours instead of the usual eight to show that they were willing and able to give the patients more and better care than the bureaucracy would allow. Later they changed the name of their demonstration, for propaganda reasons, to a "work-in." By whatever name, it stopped Topekans from boasting about their mental-health facility...
...rules will not take effect until private and commercial flyers have had a chance to comment on them at public hearings in Washington. If preliminary reactions last week are any clue, some comments will be angry. Private flyers, in particular, are incensed by the fact that the FAA intends to bar planes from the Golden Triangle pattern in bad weather unless they have a second pilot, can maintain an airspeed of 172 m.p.h. and carry electronic equipment to acknowledge radar signals of FAA controllers...