Word: transits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result was in too many cases a voracious sprawl of "slurbs," combining the worst elements of city and country. It is a fact of life that suburban houses are far more comfortable than most inner-city dwellings. But the suburbs have spawned their own problems of burgeoning school populations, transit, highways, hospitals, sewage and water supplies...
Most, that is, except Attorney George Weinstein, 33. Convinced that the "law is clear and should be en forced," Weinstein went into New York Supreme Court as a "taxpayer and voter" to ask for an injunction barring the Transit Authority from giving the transit workers their illegal raise...
Fortunately for the Transit Authority, the final decision will probably be made by another judge of the State Supreme Court. This did not prevent Say pol from taking the Transit Authority to task for "yielding and submitting to illegally extorted demands" by the un ion and permitting it to obtain a heavy "ransom from eight million citizens" of New York City. "Submission today," the judge went on to say, "to this un lawful misconduct under the guise of civil disobedience, grinding into the dirt the civil rights and liberties of the city's millions, is craven servility and could...
Before he was finished, he had harsh words for everyone. Not only did he denounce the Transit Authority and the union, but he also accused the city's corporation counsel of "fuzzy" thinking. Then he administered a mild verbal spanking to Attorney Weinstein as well for submitting what he regarded as an "inartistic" brief, which "leaves much to be desired...
Despite all this, the union was unintimidated. T.W.U. officials made high handed suggestions that unless the Transit Authority pays the raises called for by the new contract, the union will strike once more. The law as far as the T.W.U. is concerned seems a secondary consideration...