Word: happening
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of resolve in the war. But Johnson was willing to consider it further. "All right," he said, "I want you to start looking at this from every angle, from all sides." But, he warned, it must be done in complete secrecy. "The worst thing that could happen would be for it to get out. Then it would become just a gimmick...
...very nature of public employment tends to spur strikes. In contrast to private industry, public employees deal with administrators who lack full power of the purse, and a strike may be the only way to impress those who control the money-mayors, governors, legislators. When the public employees happen to be vitally needed nurses, teachers, transit workers and the like, they have an unmistakable power to rouse public opinion against a public employer whose inability to settle a dispute casts him in a poor political light-or, conversely, to rouse public opinion against themselves...
...Price said. He fears that either of the two alternatives to Johnson's proposal would leave at least half of Congress "never exposed to even the implicit threat of party discipline. I'm very much in favor of what has been proposed but very much opposed to what could happen," Price noted...
...authored Beyond the Melting Pot, a 1963 study of minority groups in New York City, with Nathan Glazer. "The point about the melting pot," he says in the introduction, "is that it did not happen...
...something is about to happen, something that will put the railroad out of its torture by either killing it quickly or resurrecting it in a new healthy body. On December 1, the Interstate Commerce Commission opened hearings on the New Haven's 256-page application to discontinue all passenger service. The application is a last-ditch stand, and may prove to be an ultimatum that could get the railroad the help that it has been demanding for the last four years...