Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today people do care. Organized crime is suddenly a high-priority item in Congress. The Nixon Administration and several key states are striving to improve law-enforcement efforts. The Justice Department is sending special anti-Mob "strike forces" into major cities, more money is being spent by police forces, and more men are being thrown into the battle. Hollywood makes movies about it (The Brotherhood), and readers have put it on the top of the bestseller list (Mario Puzo's novel The Godfather and Peter Maas's The Valachi Papers). Organized crime is no longer quite the mystery that...
...Official Harvard Strike Shirts" will soon be as conventional as hoola-hoops, V-neck pajama shirts, Peanuts cartoon calendars, and all of the products of American merchandising...
...Bertex Corporation, of Glencoe, Illinois, has begun producing and selling T-shirts and sweatshirts with red fists and "Strike" silk-screened on their backs...
...Bertex shirts closely ressemble those made at Harvard by members of the Graduate School of Design during the April strike. The only difference is that Bertex will stencil the word "Strike" in black while the Design School did it in blue...
Bertex has already sold over 400 shirts in the month since it began advertising them. James Kaplan, president of Bertex, said that he had also received requests from students wanting to represent the Strike shirts on campuses across the country...