Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STRIKE FORCE: In the past, while a single Mafia family or group of families coordinated most of the major crime in an area, law officers would be working, often at cross-purposes, on different parts of the empire. Now the cops are learning to organize as effectively as the robbers. Three years ago, Henry Petersen, the Justice Department's chief racket buster, created "Strike Force," a team of lawyers and investigators from different Government law-enforcement branches. The first group of twelve men was sent early in 1967 into Buffalo, N.Y. to blitz the firmly entrenched Mafia operation...
...exporter. The U.S. balance of payments, which was $990 million in the black at the end of last year, is expected to show a large deficit for the first quarter of the year. The important trade balance may be in the red, partly because of the winter dock strike, but also because of the high cost of U.S. goods to foreign buyers...
...creating "a Boyg-like smog of impersonal relations." Readers of Ibsen's Peer Gynt are expected to recall that the great Boyg is a shapeless cloud "neither dead nor alive; all slime and mistiness." There is really no way to get at Boyg; he "doesn't strike" and prefers to "get all he wishes by gentleness." Ibsen's folk hero Peer is softly enveloped and nearly driven mad. "Oh, for claws and teeth that would tear my flesh!" Peer shouts like an overpaternalized student rebel. "I must see a drop of my own blood flow...
...proposal to abolish the Strike Steering Committee was tabled until Tuesday. Jonathan M. Harris '69 said that the Steering Committee had done "a lousy job." He said that it had hurt the strike by "absorbing political discussion like a sponge," instead of having discussions in large meetings. He proposed returning to the SDS Executive Committee and abolishing the Steering Committee...
Teamsters Strike...