Word: outspoken
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...unless the store obeyed price-fixing orders. Hawke retaliated by threatening a strike against Dunlop's, and the manufacturer gave in within 24 hours. The government quickly pushed an anti-price-fixing bill through Parliament, but it was obvious to Australians that the real victor was the outspoken Hawke. "Bob Hawke has thrown a large stone into the middle of a stagnant pond," said a Melbourne businessman. A carpenter in Sydney put it more earthily: " Hawke's certainly a stirrer...
...report by Joseph Strickland, a former Detroit-based journalist now on the administrative staff of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, illustrating the political manipulation of news during the Detroit riots: and the text of a speech, "Subpoenas, Outtakes and Freedom of the Press," by Nicholas Johnson, an outspoken commissioner of the FCC, on the relationship between the national media and the government and its adverse affects of "the people's right to know...
...performance left a sour and uneasy feeling among many Congressmen and others who had been profoundly moved by the previous week's protests by dissident Viet Nam veterans. "The vets left a really strong and favorable impression," said an aide to one of the Senate's most outspoken doves. "But these kids are destroying it." One group that appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee reduced Vermont Senator George Aiken, a persistent war critic, to sounding like a right-wing bumper sticker. Advising them that there was no law against leaving the U.S., he snapped: "Why the hell...
...Calvin B. Marshall, outspoken Brooklyn pastor (TIME, April 6, 1970) who is chairman of B.E.D.C.'s steering committee, argues that one of B.E.D.C.'s virtues is the ability to "shoot down bureaucracy and get some dollars moving." Many of the dollars have been moving in the direction of one of B.E.D.C.'s main projects, the Black Star Press of Detroit. Its first book, by Forman, endorses "armed struggle and the seizure of state power...
...Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) was outspoken in its rejection of the manifesto, but has since doubled the $2,000,000 previously earmarked for a "reconciliation" project. "I thank the Lord for the manifesto," says the black director of the Disciples' program. "It showed the denominations that the alienation was deeper than they thought." > The U.S. Catholic Bishops' $50 million Campaign for Human Development, launched last fall, is pointedly aimed at funding minority self-help projects. A one-day nationwide appeal last Thanksgiving netted a generous $8,400,000, comfortably more than the initial target...