Word: postes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hang was hurriedly schooling himself in Republican senatorial politics and protocol. He is Ralph Smith, 53, a self-styled flexible conservative who was speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives until last week, when Governor Richard Ogilvie appointed him to fill the late Everett Dirksen's Senate post until next year's election...
...hour reduction in their 46-hour work week. In Paris, a wildcat strike of subway workers brought the underground Metro's 17 lines to a virtual standstill. When bus drivers joined in, as so often before, Paris became a city of pedestrians and monumental traffic jams. Post-office workers served notice that they intend to walk off their jobs next week...
With the country supposedly quiet, the Washington Post could turn the attention of its editorial page to matters of less moment. Or so it thought. After it ran an editorial supporting the anti-bra movement among women and even suggesting that "men blatantly exploit women as consumers" by foisting off such an unnecessary item of apparel, the Post got a chiding letter from an unexpected source. Wrote Elder Statesman Dean Acheson: "What traitor or fifth columnist on your staff embittered the war between the sexes by blaming men for the bra? Even as a boy looking at pictures of Boadicea...
...Johnson to let unions remain the sole judge of "the quality of our membership." President Nixon has made no such promise. Still, the Administration has yet to use its power under the 1964 civil rights law to seek injunctions against obvious patterns of discrimination. Last week the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette condemned Attorney General Mitchell for avoiding such litigation. The paper editorialized: "How can we lecture people to respect the law when the highest enforcers of the law seem indifferent to enforcing it themselves...
...Germans, says FitzGibbon, represents a permanent loss to Germany. The reproach of the count-me-outers, alas, has not kept the convicted German war criminals-including SS General Kurt ("Panzer") Meyer, found responsible for the murder of Canadian prisoners of war-from becoming heroes to extremist groups in the post-Hitlerian Reich...