Word: honorably
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...founded community projects, mainly for Mexican-Americans, have increased their influence; last week an Alinsky disciple was leading a bitter strike of grape pickers in the San Joaquin Valley for better wages. In Rochester, N.Y., Alinsky's predominantly Negro organization FIGHT (an apt acronym for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor, Today) has severely harassed the already established poverty agency. In Syracuse, N.Y., Alinsky's apprentices trucked mobs to heckle a Republican mayor. In Detroit, his crowd distinguished itself by presenting the president of Wayne State University, of whom the Alinsky-ites disapprove, with a live skunk...
...with only minimal procedural exceptions, can rise at any time to speak on any subject, and from this right evolved the Senate's unique place as the arena where a minority can make itself heard. Said Daniel Webster: "This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence, who know no master and acknowledge no dictation." As for the President, Connecticut's Roger Sherman described "the executive magistracy as nothing more than an institution for carrying the will of the legislature into effect...
...supposed to be a party in honor of New York Mets General Manager George Weiss, but former Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick stepped to the microphone in St. Petersburg, Fla., and announced: "Charles Dillon Stengel has been unanimously elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame." Observed Casey, who retired last summer at 75 as manager of one of the most awful teams in the history of the sport: "Amazin...
...have pioneered the self-service supermarket, but the Swiss are leading the way toward putting it on the honor system. Last week the big Migros Federation (1965 gross: $450 million) announced that after a successful six-month trial in a suburban Zurich store, it was extending an honor-system checkout to other stores...
Under the honor system, shoppers select their groceries, tot up their tab on an adding machine, then pay a cashier. The sum is never questioned. "From time to time," says Migros Sales Chief Rolf Frieden, "we have customers who come back saying they underpaid us, but it happens just as often the other way. We always make up the difference, no questions asked." At the test store, sales went up, overhead went down, and pilferage amounted to only 0.3% of sales, just about what it had been before...