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...expected, was contradictory. The defense lawyer claimed that the white cop was really at fault for "harassing" a black by bellowing out "White Power!" and "We need to kill this black bastard!" The prosecution argued that the defendant had repeatedly referred to a policeman as a "f-ing pig," and had tried to elude arrest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Courtroom Drama | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...confused. The judge, Zita Weinshienk, a bright but engagingly modest lady of 36, was seen in her chambers researching puzzling points in Black's Law Dictionary. The prosecutor was a stodgy, humorless sort who spoke in impenetrable legal jargon and once, while examining his witness on the term "pig," inquired: "Officer, were there any animals of the porcine specie there?" The defense attorney was a dynamic 28-year-old who may have seemed too cocky and slick to the Colorado jurors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Courtroom Drama | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...band of about 20 to 30 persons invaded the CFIA on September 25. roughing up several staff members and employees and breaking some windows. Several slogans-including "Pig," "Fuck U.S. Imperialism," and "Imperialists Screw All Women"-were sprayed on walls of the building...

Author: By Jeremy S. Bluhm, | Title: Police Make a New Arrest In CFIA Disruption Case | 3/26/1970 | See Source »

...police, lest they be trampled by these heroic martyrs of Judge Hoffman's courtroom. And after seeing a few of the pictures of the police alongside of these seven paragons of Christian virtue, I can't help wondering where they get the gall to call anyone a pig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 23, 1970 | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

That is precisely the spirit that the first of the stopwatch-toting efficiency experts, Frederick Winslow Taylor, condemned in 1911 as "the greatest evil with which the working people are now afflicted." In a yard where laborers were loading 12½ tons of pig iron each aboard flatcars every day, he taught one worker named Schmidt to load 47½ tons by changing the movements he used to lift the 92-lb. bars and the speed at which he walked to the flatcar.* Taylor's ideas were expanded by Frank Gilbreth, who contended that there must be "one best way" of doing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: America the Inefficient | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

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