Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a series of incidents including an outright clash between a College undergraduate and a Tufts student over the right to use a book stall, Lamont officials have decided to check persons entering the library for bursar's cards...
...clash between Tufts and Harvard students took place after the Harvard man sat down at a stall containing only two or three closed books and began to study...
...eased down on the runway, word had flashed across the U.S. that another U.S. airliner had been captured by Cubans. In El Paso, police, FBI agents and border patrolmen scrambled out of their beds and hurried to International Airport. From Denver, Continental Airlines President Robert Six issued an order: "Stall in any way, as long as possible." Two Air National Guard F-100 fighters whooshed out of Albuquerque's Kirtland Air Force Base, headed for El Paso...
...Have Fuel." Dawn seeped over the mountains around the airport as Pilot Rickards, in communication with Continental officials in the tower, continued to stall for time. Rickards told the increasingly nervous gunmen that Havana's José Marti Airport would not accommodate the huge jetliner, offered instead to substitute a smaller DC-7 already en route to El Paso for the flight. By this time, the El Paso drama had become an affair of state; if, as was automatically assumed, the hijackers were indeed Castro henchmen, drastic U.S. steps might have been required. In Washington, President Kennedy was kept...
Enter Goldberg. With negotiations at a dead stall, Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg sailed in with basically the same idea that he had used to settle two other transportation strikes this year: let both sides "voluntarily" resume work for 60 days while a three-man presidential fact-finding panel sieves the issues and submits nonbinding recommendations. Plainly this was an attempt by former Union Lawyer Goldberg to avoid taking an alternative route that he dislikes-a Taft-Hartley law injunction that would oblige the seamen to return to work for 80 days...