Word: prevented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...murder of Martin Luther King Jr. ended last week, but all was not peaceful. Negroes started picketing the two daily newspapers, the Commercial Appeal and the Press-Scimitar, in protest against their coverage of the strike. Handbills were distributed listing grievances against the papers. A boycott was mounted to prevent Negroes from buying the papers T placing ads in them. "They are racist papers," complained the strike's leader, the Rev. James Lawson. "They have attacked and vilified Martin Luther King. They have to share responsibility for his death...
...drugs, promethazine and pethidine (a synthetic equivalent of morphine), to keep them in a light sleep for one to seven days; the average has been 2½ days. Nurses wake the patient three times a day for hygiene, to take liquid food, and to do leg exercises designed to prevent clot formation...
...action it is agreed, is to be expected on the local than on the national level, mostly notably in New York where Lindsay has vowed to champion the Report. Whether or not the Report is a step towards curing the "white man's sickness' 'and whether it will help prevent more violence are open questions, and nowhere more so than at Harvard
Fewer students will be able to obtain work-study jobs this summer as a result of policy changes designed to prevent the over-spending that occurred at Radcliffe last summer, Lawrence E. Maguire, director of student employment said yesterday...
...Energy Act's national-security section. But it did not affect the constitutionality of capital punishment, currently under broad legal attack. In fact, the court implied that should Congress wish to maintain a death penalty provision in the Lindbergh law, nothing in last week's decision would prevent it from approving legislation enabling judge as well as jury to pass such a sentence. Any such provision would not affect Jackson and his pals, but they do not go free. The court declined to throw the whole law out with the death penalty. So Jackson, et al, still face...