Word: m
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Henry M. Switkay, Special Counsel for the CAB. said recently that the airlines asked for fare changes "because their costs have been increasing and their profits going down." The airlines were granted a fare increase in February, 1969, so the CAB made up the new rate per miles travelled formula instead of raising prices across the board again...
...there is any political logic to racing down city streets, breaking shop and car windows and assuaging policemen, the demonstrators have not bothered to make it plain. One R Y M-I leader announced Wednesday night that the "revolution must move like fish in the sea." Against the background of the week's events, the words sounds like a parody of Mao's essential teaching. Chicago's "friendly sea" turned on the group of Weathermen, as some bystanders fought with them in the streets...
...turnout of demonstrators-300 out of an expected 1.000-plainly indicates the Weathermen tactics have few supporters in this country, even among radicals. But the massive violence of the R Y M-I effort can do damage way out of proportion to their numbers by strengthening opponents of social change in the United States...
Some Administration supporters are concerned that M-Day will be dominated by confrontation-seeking radicals and perhaps lead to violence. Sam Brown doubts it. He considers the antiwar feeling in the U.S. to be too pervasive to be dominated by any faction. He does not even expect the day's rhetoric to be unduly violent. "We will try to engage people in conversation rather than in polemics," he promises...
...Free Democrats' Scheel began to consider the possibility of a more lasting alliance with the Socialists. Engaging and affable ("I'm a court jester, just a king's fool"), Scheel is nonetheless Considered to be a skillful politician, who, as Foreign Minister, will bring a light and sensitive touch to German diplomacy...