Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have endured a week such as no nation should live through: a time of violence and tragedy." So said the President of the U.S. last week, as flames flickered above two score American communities. From Albany, N.Y., and Albion, Mich., to Waterbury, Conn., and Waukegan, Ill., the nation's black ghettos shuddered in paroxysms of rock-throwing, fire-bombing and looting...
Without Violence. Such training is essential, not only for Guardsmen but police officers too, who in most cases, are ill-prepared to handle the riots that threaten practically every U.S. city. Some departments simply decline the responsibility. "There's a big difference between an angry crowd," says Houston's Police Chief Herman Short, "and anarchy, fire bombing, sacking of buildings, looting and sniping. No police department is equipped to conduct military operations in the street...
Similarly, Boston Psychiatrist Benjamin Simon believes that the UFOs have something for everybody. For the cosmic pessimists, saucers may represent some malignant force about to take over the world. To the ill, UFOs can represent the miracles they have been waiting for. For many, belief in the saucers provides an "oceanic or cosmic feeling of immersion in the total universe, a sort of nirvana...
Until five years ago, Denver-based Frontier Airlines chugged along as a small feeder line, earning minuscule profits and quite a bit of ill will with an ancient DC-3 fleet that was forever running late. Since then, Frontier has picked up speed enough to become a leader among the nation's 13 local service carriers. In 1966, it not only earned the largest profit ($1,790,000) among the regionals but also showed the greatest increase (58%) among all U.S. scheduled airlines in revenue passenger miles-the number of paying customers multiplied by distance flown...
Sandburg grew up in Galesburg, Ill., where his Swedish father was a railroad worker. He quit school at 13, hopped a westbound freight at 17 to see the land he was to celebrate. Later Galesburg's Lombard College accepted him on the basis of a special qualifying examination. After studying there for nearly four years, he hoboed in the East, then became a newspaper reporter, a vocation he pursued on and off as a correspondent and columnist for Chicago dailies until...