Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ROBERT E. YARBER East St. Louis, Ill...
...general war" less likely than a "limited war," which would be fought by conventional armies backed up, if need be, by tactical atomic weapons. Many U.S. military men claim that the U.S. is now prepared for limited warfare, but Taylor has argued time and again that the U.S. is ill-equipped to counter aggression with any means but the "inflexible response" of nuclear retaliation...
During the ill-starred attempt to swap 500 U.S. tractors for 1,214 Cuban prisoners held by Fidel Castro, many a U.S. citizen wondered just how such a deal could possibly benefit the U.S. But last week it seemed that the unsuccessful effort might show a curious profit after all. As a result of fund appeals by the Tractors for Freedom Committee, the Detroit post office was showered with 60,000 pieces of mail. When negotiations bogged down (TIME, June 30), the committee ordered the letters returned. So far, 56,000 that bore return addresses have been sent back unopened...
...serviced by migrant workers, mostly Negroes from the Deep South, who drift from harvest to harvest during the long summer. Inevitably, many migrants have settled in Newburgh; since 1950 the number of Negro residents has risen 151%, even though the city's overall population has dropped 3%. Poor, ill-trained and badly educated, Newburgh's ex-migrants find it hard to get year-round jobs in a town with little industry. The stubborn discrimination of the North has forced them to congregate in four waterfront districts that police bluntly call "the trouble wards." The area...
...first time he came to bat, against the New York Highlanders, Ty Cobb doubled off famed Spitballer Jack Chesbro and drove in a run. Unfortunate Dick Cooley, who was ill, never got his job back. For the next 24 years-22 with Detroit, two with Philadelphia-brawling, champagne-swigging Tyrus Raymond Cobb, the son of a mild-mannered Georgia state senator, batted, ran and fought his way through the American League with durability, skill and brazenness unmatched in the history of baseball...