Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lost in the clatter of criticism was an important accomplishment. Lindsay, for all his idealism, was unable to end the strike, while the more pragmatic Rockefeller did just that. The Governor's intervention also led, if indirectly, to an orderly means of settlement. As the Governor's press secretary, Leslie Slote, claimed: "John Lindsay has won a victory of style. In the end, my guy will win the victory of substance...
...danger in using the Guard was potential violence. No Rockefeller can forget the 1913-14 strike at the family-controlled Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. at Ludlow. At least 25 people, including women and children, died in the shooting and in fires that broke out after the militia intervened; the number of dead was never precisely established. Lindsay, however, stipulated that he wanted the troops to be unarmed, with local police providing security...
...Bracing for More Ever since the Communists launched their general offensive three weeks ago, allied commanders in South Viet Nam have been poised for another onslaught. Encircling the U.S. Marine base at Khe Sanh and massed around Saigon and other cities, enemy forces seemed to be missing opportunities to strike a second blow while the country was still struggling to recover from the initial attacks. As the days slipped by, the waiting created an unreal aura of suspense. Then last week the Communists hit again with a synchronized series of widespread mortar and rocket attacks. But, without strong supporting infantry...
...week's end General Giap was still pondering that price-and perhaps plotting new surprises. To preclude one such possibility, intelligence officers spread the warning among U.S. bases that North Vietnamese MIG-21s may strike Khe Sanh or other places in I Corps and that Hanoi might even try to send its handful of Russian IL-28 jet bombers as far south as Saigon. For several months, Giap is known to have been considering the use of warplanes in the south. Despite the huge array of U.S. radar, missiles and interceptors stationed to defeat any such attempt, the experts...
Though he owns three small papers elsewhere in New England, he put his major effort into making a success of the Haverhill (Mass.) Journal. He started the paper in 1957, when the city's only other daily, the Gazette, was crippled by a strike. The Gazette continued to publish, but Loeb lured away its advertisers by offering them payments for long-term contracts. In 1965, after the Gazette sued Loeb for trying to put it out of business, a court ordered him to pay the Gazette $1,100,000; shortly after, he shut down the Journal...