Word: tougher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This whole line of reasoning was easily applied by the court in the case of the Heart of Atlanta Motel, which fronts on an interstate highway, welcomes white transients, advertises in national magazines, and gets 75% of its guests from outside Georgia. Ollie's Barbecue was a tougher problem, since it is eleven blocks from the nearest interstate highway, does not advertise, seeks no transients. Although it is in a Negro neighborhood and employs 24 Negroes, it serves Negroes only from a take-out counter. Yet Ollie's beef-some $70,000 worth last year-was purchased from...
McNamara ordered disbanding of the Army's Organized Reserve, a collection of 19 divisions and 4,000 smaller units with 300,000 officers and men. Roughly half of the Reserve force will be assimilated into the National Guard, receive new equipment and tougher training. The remainder will be placed in an unassigned stand-by reserve force. McNamara's reasoning: the training and equipment of the Reserve divisions were so inferior that it would probably have required one year after full mobilization to bring them to combat readiness-far too long for the Pentagon's war plans...
Having won their first four games against relatively weak opposition, the schedule gets tougher when Brown visits Watson Rink Wednesday. Brown beat Northeastern 9-1 after the Crimson dropped them 9-3. Harris says the Brown freshman squad "could be one of their best ones...
What Harvard Coach has a tougher job and a better record than Bud Wilkinson, Bear Bryant, and Ara Parseghian rolled into one? Jack Barnaby, that...
Martial Law. Premier Huong was proving tougher than expected, at least for the moment. He pronounced some of the arrested rioters draft dodgers and inducted them into the army, slapped the capital under martial law and named burly General Pham Van Dong ("the Tiger of the Delta") military governor of Saigon. Dong threw two battalions of troops around the Buddhist Center. Taking to,,, radio, Huong blamed the disorders on "irresponsible people who have either innocently or deliberately fallen in with the Communist plan...