Word: scab
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left over from the magazine's serialization of Fail-Safe. Leaders negotiate "in the shadow of nuclear war" and make "the live-or-die decisions when the chips are down." As cliches mount, the reader half expects the next phone call to be answered by old Scab Cooley. But instead it is McGeorge Bundy who hears a CIAman's cryptic, spy-befuddling report of the Soviet missiles in Cuba. "Those things we've been worrying about"; says the CIAman cleverly, "it looks as though we've really got something." There is even room to mention...
...with roads, factories, universities, even with an atomic reactor. But very little dribbles down to the peasant, who wants education for his children, medical care, agricultural aid, honest officials and, most of all, protection. On a farm in a coastal region, a mother explained the neglect of her scab-ridden year-old son. "It costs 14? to go to the village and 14? to come back. The doctor charges 70? and then I must buy medicine. We're too poor...
Teamster officials deny that the union is behind the battle of the buckshot. "We don't condone any violence," says Robert Cook, president of Atlanta's Teamster Local 728. "A scab is one of the lowest-down humans there can be, but I'm against anybody shooting at anybody." Still, eight striking Bowman Teamsters have been arrested since November. And last week Sam Webb, president of northern Alabama's Local 612, was indicted for assault with intent to kill in the Warren shooting...
This bum, memorably played by Donald Pleasence, is the smelliest, itchiest, un-deloused scamp ever plucked from the rim of a rubbish barrel. Every time he opens his mouth, he picks at the scab of past wrongs and present hates. A wily slum serf, the tramp raises a mock one-finger salute to his masters, and plays the brothers off against each other. They, in turn, offer him the nebulous post of care taker, and finally, in mutual revulsion, cast him out to an unknown fate...
...situation? What are the implications of the necessarily unsubtle techniques now used? One can feel great sympathy, for example, with the pacifist who pickets missle bases until he realizes that this sort of action bears no direct relation to the situation (a technician here is by no means a scab if he crosses the picket line) and that the symbolism behind this movement, if carried to its extreme, augurs extreme danger for the United States. To protest the manufacture of missiles is to harbor a hopelessly unrealistic vision of the present day world...