Word: order
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...against students, was called off while faculty members considered various reforms. Toward the end, as few as 300 students continued the strike, compared with 7,000 strikers during the Guard's initial invasion. At Howard University in Washington, black law students quietly heeded a federal judge's order to end their lock-in, called to obtain more voice in administrative decisions. The student lawyers planned to go on boycotting classes, but not to flout the law they study...
...world of rock, where a distinguishing trait of any kind is the ultimate asset, Johnny Winter is a "chicken-soup freak" of the first order. Explains Steve Paul, 27, owner of a Manhattan nightclub called The Scene, and now his manager: "Johnny is a freak in the sense of being a unique individual, and chicken soup in the sense that he is a human being and nice as well." Last November Paul read about Johnny in an underground newspaper, dashed down to see him, brought him back to The Scene, then watched him knock 'em dead at the Fillmore...
...writing letters to Robert Seamans, then NASA Associate Administrator (and now Secretary of the Air Force). One of them began: "Somewhat as a voice in the wilderness . . ." It went on to plead, "Give us the go-ahead and we will put men on the moon in very short order." Gradually, as the difficulties with alternate plans became evident, Seamans and others began to realize the virtues of Houbolt's scheme...
...that in a column: "You've got to understand the drink. In a world where there is a law against people ever showing emotions, or ever releasing themselves from the greyness of their days, a drink is not a social tool. It is a thing you need in order to live." But a doctor has told Breslin otherwise-that he's a sitting duck for a heart attack-and he's cut back...
...city's 100,000 pay phones are wrecked monthly. New York Telephone Co. last year lost nearly $1,000,000 in coins and spent $4,000,000 on repairs. The city's sidewalk phones are the worst hit: at least 25% are out of order all the time. At train stations, on subway platforms and in entire neighborhoods, it is sometimes impossible to find a working phone...