Word: meats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sophomore burns his draft card and another tears his up. Boston meat-packers tell SDS members that "anyone who's afraid to fight doesn't belong in America" and draw their attention to a nearby can of gasoline. Residents of the North End knock an SDS speaker down and kick him in the face...
...least 500 ships and 12,000 of Britain's 65,000 seamen were idled, and the strike was having severe effects on Britain's economy. Despite Prime Minister Harold Wilson's warnings, some grocers hiked food prices about 10%. The government forbade the export of meat to conserve the domestic supply. Britain's big automakers may be forced to cut back production and lay off workers because of interrupted exports. Slowdowns were ahead for other British manufacturers, as stocks of imported raw materials diminished. The loss in sales abroad was certain to hurt Britain...
Business & Pleasure. Chinese Cholon, which means "Great Market," is a six-sq.-mi. enclave of Asian enterprise. In its sprawling, pagodalike marketplace, hunks of meat hang in bloody rows under swarms of flies; withered crones stir their black iron stewpots with k'uai-tzu (chopsticks) while spidery men stagger past under shoulder poles bending to the weight of oil and rice-wine buckets. Over all beats the cacophony of commerce: the steamy hiss of sidewalk cooking kiosks, the piping cry of the noodle vendors, the clash of cymbals advertising the approach of the blind Chinese masseurs who ply their...
Clocks & Soup Meat. According to Saigon sources, the Cholon Chinese control more than 50% of South Viet Nam's imports, nearly all of the nation's foreign exchange, and most of the dry-goods and textile factories in the country. They have a sizable hand in other commodities ranging from clocks to cement, steel to soup meat...
...Secretary has consistently all but ignored the Armed Services Committees of both houses when it comes to making crucial military decisions. As House Minority Whip Leslie Arends protested last week: "Secretary McNamara seldom asks advice, and listens only when he asks. I am constrained to ask: 'Upon what meat does this, our Caesar, feed that he is grown so great...