Word: jacked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Labor Mediator Theodore Kheel proposes enjoining only those strikes that affect public health and safety; others, he feels, can be managed within the strategies of arbitration. Michigan State University Economist Jack Stieber would group government employees into three categories, only the first of which-possibly limited to policemen and firemen-would not be allowed to strike. Strikes instigated in less essential services would be tacitly tolerated, at least until their cumulative effect went beyond inconvenience...
...sided journalism, such as the widely printed photo of the South Vietnamese police chief's execution of a Viet Cong. "Not even a perfunctory acknowledgment was made of the fact that such executions, en masse, are the Viet Cong way of war." Smith reports that his own son Jack, left for dead by the Communists in the battle of la Drang, witnessed the execution by the enemy of a dozen U.S. soldiers who were in uniform...
...lack of guts, thinks Jack Hanson, owner of the celebrated California-based Jax women's sportswear boutiques, that has held men back until now. Says he: "The problem is that so many male homosexuals have always dressed far-out that other men are afraid of being identified as one." Evidently Hanson believes that the old fear is fading, for he has just opened a Jax for Men boutique in Beverly Hills...
Died. 2nd Lieut. Richard W. Pershing, 24, grandson of World War 1's General of the Armies John J. ("Black Jack") Pershing; of combat wounds; near Quang Tri, Viet Nam. A Yale graduate who received his Army commission seven months ago, Pershing went to Viet Nam and was leading a patrol in search of a member of his platoon when he was killed in a Viet Cong ambush...
Died. Joe B. Brown, 59, Dallas district judge who presided over Jack Ruby's 1964 trial for the murder of Lee Harvey Oswald; of a heart attack; in Dallas. An easygoing Texan, Brown drew criticism for permitting noisy spats between lawyers and letting cameramen record the verdict on live TV; more serious, he entertained so much questionable testimony that a higher court later struck down the decision and ordered a retrial away from Dallas...