Word: suspectible
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chasing a 14-year-old Negro burglary suspect, a cop pulled his revolver, fired and wounded the boy in the neck. Moments later, the neighborhood swarmed with outraged Negroes. In the streets and from rooftops, several hundred Negroes hurled stones and bottles at police, as two dozen patrol cars with four dog teams screamed into the area. Negro vandals broke into a tavern, stole whisky and beer, started a fire, and then stoned firemen who answered the alarm...
...chairman of Lockheed Aircraft, the nation's biggest defense contractor, loses exact count of the division-strength army that Lockheed now uses to devise new products and processes to keep ahead of competitors-but the number runs to 13.000 or 14.000 scientists and engineers. Says Gross: "I suspect there's more science and engineering in a button today than there was 20 years ago." In, steel, Europe's new oxygen furnaces have outmoded the old open hearth, which is much slower and costlier, and forced many U.S. steel firms to begin installing the more efficient furnaces...
...there has been a surprise in this year's race, it has been the miserable showings of the teams that were supposed to challenge the Yankees for the pennant. The Minnesota Twins, whose good hitters were supposed to make up for their suspect pitchers, have been more consistent; both batters and pitchers have been wretched, and the Twins are as high as eighth place only by grace of three recent wins over the slumping Red Sox. Bob Allison is hitting, but the rest of the team is not, and the Twins show few signs of ever becoming challengers...
...President is thinking about this year is tax reduction, according to what I read in the press," Pusey said. "I suspect a tax cut will come in Congress, but that means the Congress will be economy-minded. And we all know that one of the first expenditures to be cut will be that for education...
...year's Sabotage Act seem tame by comparison, has already been dubbed the "No Trial" bill. It promises the death penalty for citizens who receive training in subversion abroad or urge intervention by force in South Africa. Postal authorities can open, read and hold suspicious mail. Any political suspect, without trial, can be placed in 90-day detention, which may then be endlessly repeated. Commented Justice Minister Vorster: "This is as much power as I need for existing circumstances. If necessary, I will take even stronger steps...