Word: planned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tried to plant Red and Viet Cong flags on the National Monument, which commemorates the Resistance of World War II. A police inspector, trapped by young toughs, was burned on the face with cigarette butts. In London, militant workers used May Day to protest the government's plan to outlaw wildcat strikes. Close to 100,000 workers stayed home, and the docks of London, Hull and Manchester shut down...
...city council president. What's more, they were serious about it. "We are sentimental about the past," said Mailer. "We want New York to thrive again, to be a city famous for the charm, ferocity, elegance, strength, calm and racy character of its separate neighborhoods." The Mailer-Breslin plan is to detach the city from New York State and make it a city-state of its own, organized on the basis of homogeneous neighborhoods that would run their own schools, garbage collection, police and fire departments. The proposal, argued Mailer, should appeal equally to radicals and to conservatives...
...million already using the council's facilities. The demand for sports goods has grown so great that hockey sticks disappeared from the shelves of Moscow's stores this winter. There is still a two-to three-year wait for new automobiles, and drivers who plan a long trip must load up with food and extra gas before setting out, since there are few service stations and no motels and restaurants outside the cities...
...persuade consumers to switch from margarine to butter. The proposed solution, which includes a tax of at least $60 a ton on the food oils used in margarine, would slash by one-third the U.S.'s $500 million annual soybean exports to the Common Market. The tax plan was shelved after the U.S. threatened retaliation-by raising tariffs on imported European cars, for example-but as long as the "butterberg" grows, the bitterness will persist...
Margaret Levi, chairman of the Graduate School of Design expansion committee, yesterday claimed that the new Corporation plan to build 1100 units of low and middle income housing in Boston provided "inadequate protection" for displaced community residents...