Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More realistically, Powell faces a tough fight to get back his congressional seat. His attorneys filed a 15-page brief with the investigating committee headed by Brooklyn Congressman Emanuel Celler, declaring that there is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that bars him from his seat. The nine-man Celler committee announced that it will begin holding formal hearings this week. Celler said he had not yet made up his mind on whether to call Powell to testify, although he thought it "most likely...
...cement for a school or clinic until Saigon first produces a teacher or a medical technician." Moreover, the villagers themselves must participate. If the villagers put three or four months of their own sweat into a project, the Marines figure, they will take better care of it and fight any Viet Cong attempts to take over or destroy...
...turbulent start when toughs at a rally of Bustamante's Jamaica Labor Party began tossing rocks and hit the Minister of Development and Welfare on the head. The politicking is also apt to get pretty turbulent within Bustamante's own party, where a four-way fight is shaping up to pick a successor to the old man as Labor Party leader...
...said he felt "a sense of deep sadness" over Kerr's dismissal. Similar protest rallies attracted 6,000 students at Berkeley, 5,000 at the Santa Barbara campus, 3,500 at Riverside. The university's nine chancellors met in Los Angeles, pledged to continue Kerr's fight against any university tuition as proposed by Governor Ronald Reagan, and to fight any "erosion of quality and education" caused by budget cuts...
Still, the bumpy rate cuts dramatically signaled an end to the pressures that last year drove interest in the U.S. to a 45-year peak. When the Federal Reserve Board hiked its discount rate from 4% to 41% in late 1965 to fight inflation, commercial banks lifted their prime rate in tandem from 41% to 5%. As loan demand soared, the prime rate moved up three more times by mid-1966-a 33% increase in eight months. Since September, the squeeze has eased -imperceptibly at first but lately significantly. Yields on 90-day Treasury bills have slipped to 4.54%, compared...