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Even that failed. In a display of impatience with both Congress and their own leadership, some 3,000 members of Chicago's N.A.L.C. Branch 11 shouted down pleas from union officers to remain on their jobs and voted overwhelmingly to strike. The resistance spread quickly. Postal units in Boston, Cleveland...
Federal court injunctions have been issued in most cities to stop the strike, but local unions have been ignoring both the injunctions and the pleas of the postal union's national leadership to return to work.
Although homebuilding has become a principal victim of the fight against inflation, the Nixon Administration has been resisting many of the industry's pleas for special help. Several Government agencies have poured a total of $13 billion into mortgages, loans and commitments, but even so, housing production has fallen...
In the Federal Building jury room and then in the Palmer House hotel, the jury of ten women and two men argued and horse-traded for four days before reaching a verdict on the charges against the Chicago Seven-which were that they had conspired to incite a riot during...
Then began a nightmarish, nine-day odyssey of 17,069 miles. When she sought to return to Kenya, she was refused entry. Three other countries rejected her pleas for admission. She drifted to airports in Frankfurt, Zurich, Athens, Nairobi and Johannesburg, still clad in the same lime-green sari and...