Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...driver was murdered in a holdup Friday, touching off a short strike. Drivers first demanded a policeman on every bus, now may settle for curtailment of all service after 10 p.m. Bus robberies are double last year's pace...
...students and teachers convened on campus lawns or in private apartments to resume their work. One art-history instructor had his class meet him, appropriately, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; a class in Oriental civilization gathered at the New Moon Inn, a Chinese restaurant. Leaders of the strike boasted that all courses held outside of university buildings were really "liberation classes"-and issued daily mimeographed listings of time and location for such courses as "liberated French" and "liberated genetics...
...head of the Columbia student strike, Rudd was clearly trying to shut down the university completely. He led midday rallies at Low Library, threatened to defy university regulations by organizing another demonstration inside a campus building, staged a confrontation with New York City police outside the university's main gate in order to challenge the ban against outsiders on campus. On cue, some 1,000 demonstrators gathered at Broadway and 116th Street. But there was no repetition of the bloody clashes that had marked the previous week's events. Police shrugged off the student taunts, and within...
...well as three Florida weeklies, the group's total revenues reached $123 million in 1967, up $4,000,000 from the year before. 'Net income, however, was down from $9,000,000 in 1966 to $8,000,000 last year, mainly because of the 26-week strike against the Free Press that still shows no sign of ending...
Whenever they can, the singers of Wait a Minim sneak on stage to express their musical thoughts about love or hate or anything else that happens to strike their fancy. Michel Martel clowns around, but also finds time to display a voice that can find its place in any octave. Helen Ireland, throaty and soothing, and Nigel Pegram, quiet and cynical, handle the familiar folk songs with an unfamiliar sense of style...