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Word: tolls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago's toll of eleven deaths, 911 injuries, 3,965 arrests and $11 million in damage might have soared far higher without the efforts of Rumor Central, a ten-month-old agency that checked out reports and squelched unfounded fears. Praised by the Kerner riot commission for its work during last year's strife, Rumor Central added 35 volunteers to its staff of 47 and in this year's five-day flare-up handled 40,000 telephone calls-most of them concerning such fantasies as the lynching of two nuns and the landing of Stokely Carmichael from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: RAMPAGE & RESTRAINT | 4/19/1968 | See Source »

...last period the sun took its toll from both teams, as the controlled Crimson passing broke down and the whole caliber of play degenerated into a dull ending...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Downs Penn, 8-5, In First Ivy Lacrosse Tilt | 4/15/1968 | See Source »

...example, half of all county-jail inmates are in for drunkenness-something far better treated at public-health detoxification centers. In mass arrests of small drug pushers, police mainly cut supplies and raise prices, which addicts then meet by more thefts and burglaries. In New York City, the daily toll is almost $1,000,000, and addicts account for half the city's convicts. Not only are big suppliers untouched; a national trend to mandatory sentences and no parole or probation in drug cases is defeating curative efforts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: CRIMINALS SHOULD BE CURED, NOT CAGED | 3/29/1968 | See Source »

...flying service to compete with Wien and others. After taking over some smaller operators, Petersen renamed his operation Northern Consolidated Airlines, an impressive title for a ragtag conglomeration of hard-drinking pilots and overworked aircraft. Petersen, who will be chairman of the new company, recalls that the biggest toll of pilots was not taken by crashes, but by alcohol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airlines: Out of the Bush | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

Saigon announced that in the previous week 542 Americans had died in action, only one short of the record toll set only two weeks before. So far this year, 3,254 Americans have been killed v. 9,353 for all of last year-and, at current casualty rates, this week the 20,000th U.S. serviceman will fall on the battlefields of Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Period of Adjustment | 3/15/1968 | See Source »

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