Word: june
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Across the American farm belt, homemade signs are sprouting up faster than soybeans in June. They are posted on idle tractors, trucks and combines, on the sides of barns and the walls of farm cooperative offices. NO DEAL, NO MEAL, they proclaim. Or NO PAY, NO HAY. Or FOR YOUR NEXT BAG OF SUGAR, CALL FIDEL. Blunt and pithy, they capture perfectly the mood of America's angry, embattled farmers...
Years of internal feuding by the insurgents who took over the union in 1972 have reduced the U.M.W.'s top leadership to a fractious clique of backbiting squabblers. President Arnold Miller, 54, re-elected by a minority of the members last spring (TIME, June 27), has remained mired in struggles with erstwhile supporters who say that he has not shown effective leadership. Meanwhile, wildcat strikes by U.M.W. locals have mushroomed out of control. As a result, the U.M.W., now negotiating in Washington with the Bituminous Coal Operators Association for a new three-year contract, finds itself unable...
...huge salary was highly resented and even more so was his erratic play. The players treated him like an outcast. But for Martin, Jackson always posed a different kind of threat: the big slugger, he feared, might come between him and control of his players. By the middle of June what Martin had worried about had happened: the Yankee clubhouse was a shambles. Brooding and set to explode, Martin decided he must have a public showdown with Jackson to preserve his authority. "All the players were waiting for it," he said later. When Jackson loafed fielding a hit in Boston...
...when he returned to his paper, the World, in June 1976--the month the riots broke out in Soweto and other black townships--Qoboza apparently changed his mind...
...report, which the group began working on last June at the request of University officials, will recommend means to increase efficiency by improving the morale of the members of the force, Howland said...