Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Muskie has so far failed to establish himself as a forceful or inspiring leader on any major issues...
...local campuses have become increasingly security-conscious. Dormitories have instituted checkout procedures, and Eastern Michigan has imposed a curfew. The University of Michigan has increased its cross-campus bus service and installed lights on major streets and walkways. Campus police have stepped up night patrols...
...some of the five police agencies working on the case impeded progress, causing Governor William Milliken to observe that the departments had displayed only "passive cooperation" with one another. He ordered the state police to take over. The state cops played an important but unanticipated role in the first major break in the case. State Police Corporal David Leik returned from a vacation to find his house "disturbed." Leik's nephew, John Norman Collins, 23, had a key to the house. Going on Leik's report and other evidence, police arrested Collins, an Eastern Michigan senior, and charged...
Shooting Gallery. The price of the heightened violence is heavy, and not only to the combatants. Last week Swedish Major Bo Roland Plane, one of the 92 United Nations observers stationed along the canal, became the second U.N. officer to die since the outbreak of hostilities 25 months ago; an earlier death occurred during the 1967 fighting in Syria. Major Plane was killed by an Israeli shell fragment at his observation post near Port Tewfik on the Egyptian side of the canal. The post had already sustained several near misses and one direct hit that blew a hole...
...Alliance of Labor for Action, formed by the U.A.W. and the Teamsters, suggests that some unions may become belatedly re-engaged in social progress. Still, white union members are not likely to open their ranks to Negroes until some of their own basic fears are calmed. One major anxiety is that automation will replace workers. Another is the boredom that afflicts many assembly-line workers at age 30 or 35. Unions, corporations and Government clearly need to establish many more retraining programs to enable workers to educate them selves for second careers. The Federal Government might pat tern such...