Word: ill
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAZEL FISHER, R.N. Decatur, Ill...
Supervision has been greatly tightened and improved. At a demonstration against Vice President Humphrey at the Los Angeles Palladium last week (Humphrey, ill at home, was a no-show), supervisors made sure that police were restrained and effective. The protesters went home quietly. A year ago, when President Johnson appeared at Century City, the cops not only violated an elementary rule of crowd control by leaving the demonstrators no avenue for exit, but inflamed feelings with gross misuse of force, helping to turn a demonstration into a riot...
...Elite Sign. The Kremlin's pressure on Czechoslovakia ranged from attacks on the most liberal proponents of reform to an ill-concealed attempt to intimidate the government by delaying the departure of Soviet troops, which had been conducting maneuvers on Czechoslovak soil. The most ominous Russian warning came from the official Communist Party newspaper Pravda, which for the first time compared the Czechoslovak situation to the Hungarian uprising of 1956. It spoke of Czechoslovakia's "counterrevolutionary activity"-the worst swear word in the Communist lexicon-and charged that the progressives in Prague were "more treacherous and sinister" than...
...Ill at Ease. A native Californian, Pauline Kael arrived in New York three years ago and landed a reviewing job on McCall's. She did not stay very long because of her unladylike way of dismissing certain movies with a karate chop of criticism. "I thought I'd last six months," she says. "I lasted five." She moved on to the more congenial New Republic, then switched to The New Yorker last winter. She has brought out two books of collected criticism, Lost It at the Movies and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Though she is now considered...
...better pact than the Teamsters, who had settled for $30 a week last March. But the extra pay hardly seemed worth the idle hours and the anguish caused by the protracted strike. If the shutdown proved anything, beyond hu man obstinacy, it was that a modern U.S. city can ill afford the loss of its daily newspapers...