Word: shakedowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prisoners at the Presidio of San Francisco staged a sit-down strike to protest stockade conditions and the fatal shooting of a fellow prisoner by a guard. Military personnel have defied orders against taking part in off-post demonstrations while in uniform. Underground newspapers, including The Last Harass, The Shakedown, Open Sights and Fun, Travel and Adventure (FTA) protest the war and "racism" in the armed forces. The papers, whose editors claim circulations of anywhere from 500 to 23,000, also give instructions on how to bug the brass. Open Sights urges soldiers interested in "freaking out the military dictatorship...
...shakedown period convinced Editor Clay Felker that his best hope for attracting the educated, high-income reader lay in appealing to the city dweller's basic self-interest. The "how to" article became a staple, from "Taking Advantage of Tax Shelters" to "How to Eat Cheaply at High-Priced Restaurants." Says Felker: "We as journalists looked too long and too lovingly at the hippies, yippies, protesters and rock groups. They are no longer, to use the clichéé, relevant. What is relevant is that you can go broke on $80,000 a year, that...
...American tourists for the transatlantic run in the warm seasons and Caribbean cruises in the winter. At least, that was the dream of the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. when it ordered the $71 million, 66,000-ton liner in 1964. Last week, as she limped into Southampton after her shakedown voyage to the Canary Islands, the Queen, her company and its dream were all badly shaken...
...hundreds of workmen last November, only to rehire them in last-minute attempts to meet deadlines. Partly because workers were angered by the layoffs, there were many acts of vandalism-carpets were badly soiled and wood flooring was gouged. Hundreds of workmen were put aboard the ship for the shakedown run to put matters right, but they managed to miss few tea breaks, beer breaks or whisky breaks. Then there was the matter of pilferage. One electrician was charged with stealing a startling list of articles: 30 yards of carpeting, two chests of drawers, five curtains, 180 ft. of glass...
...Hatch Act provision prohibiting direct political contributions. Nonetheless, as the Washington Post argued, "The giving of campaign contributions under such circumstances is not far removed from a genteel bribe. And the taking of them is bound to strike some people, starting with us, as something very like a political shakedown." Rooney sailed off to Japan for one of his regular inspections. In Tokyo he will confer with Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and look for luxuries lurking in embassy operations...