Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Composition was neat and attractive, marred only by muddied pictures that reflected some kinks in the engraving process. Here and there, the makeup seemed out of whack. A write-up of city firemen's beefs found room in the women's pages; on the first page of the second section, four humorous columns surrounded a somber piece about women convicts. Such gaffes only reflected a first-week confusion. "Those stories were in type," explained Conniff. "We simply had to put them somewhere...
Demanding that their in-station hours be cut from 56 to 50 a week, 278 of Kansas City's firemen last month got around state laws by playing sick for four days; in so doing they defied a court injunction and created a wrangle so bitter that National Guardsmen were sent to guard firehouses. In Atlanta, 500 of 726 firemen quit their own union, the International Association of Fire Fighters, which bars strikes, then walked out for 21 days despite a court back-to-work order...
...next, the level of violence increased by almost geometric progression, spread ing west and south to cover an area eight miles square. Negroes stopped automobiles driven by whites and beat the occupants. Small gangs pillaged scores of shops. They hurled fire bombs, rocks and chunks of masonry at the firemen who responded to the alarms. As Molotov cocktails burst in one drugstore window, a Negro woman emerged, weep ing. "Why would they do this to their own people?" she asked. "The world's gone...
Nights of the Gun. From rock and bomb the rioters turned to guns. Snipers shot at police and firemen, wounding half a dozen. At the intersection of Lake and Wood Streets, 100 policemen armed with rifles traded shots with a dozen assailants in and around an apart ment project for an hour. Like guerrillas, most of the gunmen disappeared into the night after being surrounded...
...ambitious bond issue for $195 million to finance such brick-and-mortar improvements as rapid-transit extensions, street and alley lighting, and 63 miles of new sewers. As the city-hall machine moved into overdrive, bank depositors found among their canceled checks flyers urging a yes vote, police and firemen trod sidewalks distributing literature, and Chicago's Roman Catholic Archbishop John P. Cody resorted to the pulpit to plug the measure. Result: the bonds passed by a 2-to-1 margin...