Word: letting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Broadway Transit Co. are under no such restriction. Fired by the Washington Suburban Sanitation Commission after a 1966 strike, garbage men in suburban Washington savored the immense satisfaction of going back to work-at the higher wages they had demanded-for the private contractor to whom the commission had let the new refuse-collection contract. Amid such contradictions, organized public workers are increasingly taking the position that collective bargaining is meaningless without the ultimate weapon of the strike which, used or not, brings gains to private employees...
...childhood friend who now practices medicine in Montreal, "he had muscles rippling all over him," and Papa Hull was already spending hours on the ice, endlessly drilling his son on the technique of stick handling. "He was sometimes impatient," says Bobby, "but he liked to skate with me. 'Let's try it again, Robert,' he would say. 'Keep your head up. If the stick blade is angled properly, the puck will feel right...
...vibes approach that was based on the flowing style of the Modern Jazz Quartet's Milt Jackson, but he still felt that his musical personality was as neatly buttoned down as his collar. So he went on his own, decked himself out in the Custer buckskins, and literally let his hair down. "I felt I should get my personality across to people," he says. "All short haircuts look the same, but no two long ones...
...wholly against that. Instead, he wants the university and the colleges to in crease student fees. Mindful of the long record of disorders at Berkeley, not to mention recent demonstrations at San Francisco State and San Jose State colleges, the legislature seems to be in a mood to let the schools stay lean until they stiffen campus discipline...
Almost from the start, the U.S. effort to build a supersonic jet transport has been buffeted by technical, financial and political turbulence. The resulting delays have already set back development of the plane by at least a year. Last week the Johnson Administration let it be known that the SST faces a further slowdown, which will keep it from entering airline service at least until 1976 or '77, instead of 1974, as originally planned...