Word: signs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...understand what the other was saying, for Blasingame was ranting in English while the catcher was raving in Japanese. The first American ever to serve as the head coach of a professional Japanese baseball team, the monolingual Blasingame usually avoids such communications problems because he uses pidgin Japanese and sign language. An interpreter sits with him on the bench for emergencies...
...drawn by Grosz, handing out the fundamentalist Watchtower. The butcher-like businessman who refuses his subway seat to the cripple thrusting a certificate of disability into his face. The street hawker of lottery tickets, with 50 mark bills stuck around hat band and belt, and a sign announcing the "security" to be gained from the lottery. Lapses of taste: barbed wire has been strung up to keep pedestrians from crossing medians and to protect flowerbeds. One would have thought, somehow...
...that his advice was not welcome. More embarrassing revelations about secret bombings and covert military activity in Cambodia and Laos continued to spill out. Both the House and Senate have passed bills to curb Nixon's power to impound funds appropriated by Congress. Even such a comparatively trivial sign as Kissinger's postponing his trip to Peking, which had been set for early August to discuss a Cambodian settlement with Chou Enlai, aroused speculation. Kissinger is concerned that Watergate has eroded the President's-and his own -ability to conduct foreign policy, and that the longer...
...goods coming into the country embargoed at the country's ports (it lifted the ban only occasionally to allow distribution of cargoes like Camembert cheese that threatened to befoul Melbourne's port). Mail service with France has been cut off, and at least one restaurant put a sign in its window announcing that it would not serve French customers. The International Court of Justice at The Hague had handed down a temporary injunction against the tests in June, but France ignored the order...
Three years ago a massive consumer boycott dragged growers kicking and screaming into the 20th Century. Now, when the UFW's hard-won contracts are up for renewal along come Teamster honchos who, without a word to the workers, sign a ready-made contract with the growers. That Teamster contract reinstitutes the notorious Labor Contractor hiring system, reduces the workers' already minimal pay, imposes no restrictions on the use of man-killing pesticides and leaves the workers without any effective medical benefits. There are other cruel inadequacies in the Teamsters' sweetheart contract, but that should be enough to make...