Word: strikingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sanitation workers' strike in Memphis erupted into one of this year's first race riots. Martin Luther King's murder stirred a second outbreak and a stiff curfew. The steamy city on the Mississippi still seethes in the residue of April's unlearned lessons, and the aloof attitude of Mayor Henry Loeb and other officials hardly helps. This week the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convenes defiantly in the city where its founder was murdered. The S.C.L.C. national convention could bring Memphis to flash point...
...Israel has had the virtual freedom of Jordanian skies ever since. This time, however, the Israeli overflight was far from routine. Angered by daily raids on Israeli-occupied territory by Jordan-based Arab commandos, Israel had decided to make use of its air superiority to strike back. El Fatah, the largest and most aggressive of the commando groups, had its operations headquarters in a half-acre grove of fig and olive trees just outside Salt. The Israeli jets were out to destroy it in the heaviest Israeli air raid against the Arabs since...
Helicopter Pursuit. Arab delegates protested the raid at the United Nations, and Fatah Leader Yasser Arafat, who escaped the Salt attack unscathed, swore that "we shall strike back harder than ever." The Israelis replied in kind. Two days later they used helicopters to track a fleeing band of commandos into Jordan after an attack in Israel's Negev desert, landed troops from choppers fore and aft of the guerrillas and killed five of them in the ensuing firefight. While Israeli and Jordanian troops traded fire in daily duels across the muddy Jordan River, Israeli Premier Levi Eshkol observed ominously...
...survey also disclosed that about 75% of the schools polled still have policies that permit such punishment. Ten percent of the reported cases of pupils being struck occurred despite regulations prohibiting physical punishment. Striking was most common in the public schools, the early primary grades and in the Southern states, and was least frequent in suburban schools. A child is four times more likely to be hit by a male teacher than by a woman. Defending their heavy-handed discipline, 63% of the teachers said that they favored school-board policies permitting them to strike youngsters anywhere except...
Actually, few steelmen ever expected Bethlehem's original price move to survive natural market forces, including inventories built up as a strike hedge and foreign imports, both of which are at record levels. As things stand, the effect of the new prices on consumer products is expected to be modest, amounting to an increase of about $6 in the cost...