Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although the vigilante impulse has been stigmatized as part of a lynch-mob mentality, there is no intrinsic reason why blacks and whites should not cooperate in escort ser vices, for instance, or in demanding both more policemen and more humane police procedures. Such cooperative ventures are still far too rare to set a pattern; if anything, the cur rent trend indicates a discouraging deterioration. But the scattered alliances formed thus far suggest exciting possibilities - and a clear challenge for unions, corporations and politicians at every level to work toward an atmosphere of tolerance based upon rational self-interest...
Public ownership has been studied and restudied ever since Merrill Lynch suggested the idea in 1963. The issue was brought to a boil in May, when Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, an aggressive company that specializes in institutional business, needed new sources of capital to finance expansion, and announced that it was willing to quit the exchange in order to go public. Since then, Chairman Daniel J. Cullen of Walston & Co. has said that his firm will go public if the exchange approves. Members of regional exchanges have also started pressing for permission to sell stock...
...FRANK LYNCH shows vast improvement in last and has chance to outclass this field, WATCH YOUR FINGERS/LOVE BOY will be an odds-on Breshnahan entry--they have a strange history of finishing second, JUST JOLLY is coming to hand...
...Brien came out for, among other things, a workers' democracy, abrogation of the Anglo-Irish free-trade treaty, and a neutralist foreign policy. Responding to the challenge, the ruling Fianna Fail (Soldiers of Destiny) Party, under Premier John (Jack) Lynch, campaigned against Labor's "alien ideology," and against O'Brien himself. Taking account of the fact that O'Brien has been divorced, they pinned on him the ironic label of "the new pope of Irish morality...
...turned out, Fianna Fail captured 75 seats in the 144-seat Dail, or Parliament, three more than it had before. The equally conservative opposition party, Fine Gael, won 50 and Labor only 18. The result confirmed Lynch, a compromise choice for his party's leadership in 1966, as Taoiseach (chief of the clan) in his own right-and that the Irish are not yet ready for new departures...