Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blue Island, Ill...
...summer's bloodiest confrontation occurred in Cleveland, where an ambush of police by black extremists led to an uprising that took eleven lives. Since then, groups of policemen have been wounded by Negro guerrillas in Seattle and Peoria, Ill., and lesser sniping skirmishes have been reported in a dozen other cities. But this has apparently been the work of a handful of fanatics, and they have failed to rally much of a following. While the extremists speak loudly, and often gain the headlines, they do not come near to representing the peaceful and constructive majority of the rapidly changing...
...nation's restive schoolteachers last week faced the reopening of classes in a belligerent mood of complaint and protest. Last-minute compromises prevented strikes that would have shut down the school systems of Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Toledo. Teachers did go on strike in East St. Louis, Ill., as well as in scattered school districts from Rhode Island to Utah, including 16 districts in Michigan...
...remaining in that painful position for more than two hours. During that time, a Soviet officer stole Dubček's wristwatch. Later in the day, the Soviets clamped Dubček and the others into handcuffs and took each of them to separate places of internment. Abused, ill-fed, not knowing what fate awaited them, they were kept in total isolation for three days...
...since 1966, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. New York, however, is a very special case. There the apartment shortage and the rent squeeze have become so bad that many office workers, professionals and young executives are reluctantly moving out to the suburbs, an exodus that bodes ill for the city's struggle to retain its middle-class population. President William J. Molloy of Molloy Bros. Moving & Storage, the largest affiliate of Allied Van Lines in the New York area, reports a 25% increase this summer in families moving out of Manhattan. "Business is so heavy...