Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Olympic games are the first to be held in a Spanish-speaking country, the first in Latin America, and the first in a developing nation. They are also Mexico's first big opportunity to put its stable prosperity on inter national display. A two-month-old strike by Mexico's normally docile university students is threatening to spoil that triumph. Last week President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz ordered the army to end the strike by taking over the National University campus on the outskirts of Mexico City...
...Yankee Slugger Mickey Mantle. It was the top of the eighth one day last week, and Detroit Tiger Ace Denny McLain was coasting to his 31st victory on a five-run lead. Up stepped Mantle for perhaps his last time at bat in Tiger Stadium. Mickey took a called strike, fouled off two more pitches, and then signaled with his bat for Denny to put the ball belt-high, where he likes it. Denny served it up, and Mick lined the ball into the upper deck for his 535th home run. As he rounded the bases, he moved past Jimmy...
...reason for the frenzy was the presence in the lake of a game fish whose natural home is in the coastal waters and streams of the Pacific. Coho salmon were being caught in fresh-water Lake Michigan by the thousands. And every strike was a battle. The silvery coho salmon are 2 ft. long, weigh 15 Ibs. and more. "They're all different," said Ron Jenkins of Battle Creek, Mich., who had caught three in his first half-hour. "Some will jump; some will go deep. They'll all fight." Said a farmer who had been trying...
...Businessmen have begun cutting back their hitherto rapid inventory buildup, prompting manufacturers to predict a squeeze on their own sales in the fall. Steel output has plunged to a five-year low as users of the metal dig into the huge stockpiles accumulated as a hedge against the summer strike that never came. Most steel mills are running at only half of capacity, and steelmen expect further declines before orders pick up again. As a result, the Federal Reserve Board reported last week, the nation's total industrial production fell by 1% in August...
...Young People's Socialist League scored a major success in its picketing of grape sellers in the Harvard Square area yesterday. Superior Market and Nini's Corner both consented late yesterday to sign agreements promising not to buy California grapes until the strike has ended...