Word: spate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Andreas Papandreou, leftist son of former Premier George Papandreou. The real target of the initial roundup, he is charged with conspiracy to commit treason. A pair of self-proclaimed "secret witnesses" in the Andreas case have now surfaced in the U.S., courtesy of Ramparts magazine, which, after the usual spate of advance publicity, published their story that agents of the KIP (the Greek CIA) coerced them into giving false testimony against Andreas. The two men, part-time Publisher Kyriakos Diakogiannis and Lawyer Andreas Vachliotis, had offered the story to other U.S. newsmen in Athens in return for air fare...
...solve the problem by moving into old industrial lofts. But living there often meant breaking the city's fire and non-occupancy laws or entailed the double cost of maintaining separate living and studio quarters. And with urban renewal, even lofts are becoming a rarity. Last week a spate of new projects, all aimed at alleviating their housing problem, convinced artists that their pleas for help might at last be beginning to register...
Despite the sudden flurry of interest in the Negro's plight, the spate of committees ordered to probe the ghettos' blight, and the rash of ratiocination in the press, Young warns that "time is running out." Not only for the Negro moderates, who are having more and more trouble persuading the slum dwellers not to turn to violence, but for the rest of society...
...list has proved to be woefully incomplete. So far this summer, some 70 cities-40 in the past week alone-have been hit. In the summer of 1967, "it" can happen anywhere, and sometimes seems to be happening everywhere. Detroit's outbreak was followed by a spate of eruptions in neighboring Michigan cities-Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Flint, Muskegon, West Michigan City and Pontiac, where a state assemblyman, protecting the local grocery that he had owned for years, shot a 17-year-old Negro looter to death. White and Negro vandals burned and looted in Louisville. Philadelphia's Mayor...
...this helped-but not enough. On sales of $450 million, REA this year is expected to show a loss of $6,000,000-partly because of a spate of wage increases, and partly as a result of decreasing volume. REA now carries only 2% of its traditional specialty, small shipment haulage, while faster, more efficient truckers have cornered virtually all the market. What's more, it is now meeting competition from the Post Office Department's Parcel Post, once forbidden to carry parcels heavier than 20 Ibs., but under new regulations moving into heavier goods...