Word: truck
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After a white foreman shouted angrily about "goddam niggers" to Manuel Alcorn, a black truck driver, and ordered him fired, Alcorn complained of nausea and insomnia. He got his job back, but sued his employers for $110,000. The California court upheld his right to seek damages from a lower court on that basis. Wrote Justice Louis Burke: "Al though the slang epithet 'nigger' may once have been in common usage, along with such other racial characterizations as 'wop,' 'chink,' 'jap,' 'bohunk' or 'shanty Irish,' the former expression...
Picket lines were in force in front of all of Harvard's libraries today, at the Aiken Computation Laboratory, and at the main Yard gate. Picketers prevented University mail truck from entering the Yard, causing some of today's mail to go undelivered. (See other story on this page).Kaplan said last night that the rally committee expected about...
More than 1000 police and Guardsmen used tear gas last night to disperse several thousand demonstrators at the University of Maryland in College Park. Students at Berkeley burned an army truck and ran a burning U. S. flag up a flag pole...
...Caucasus. Production, delayed by material shortages, is scheduled to begin in July, but Moscow hopes eventually to get 660,000 cars a year from the plant. Last week Henry Ford II announced that the Soviet Union had invited Ford Motor Co. to participate in the construction of a mammoth truck-building plant at Naberezhnye Chelny, east of Kazan. Its production capacity of 150,000 heavy-duty trucks a year would be larger than anything in the U.S., but Russia obviously needs that much and more; it is currently producing fewer heavy-duty trucks and buses than...
WITHOUT fanfare or advance publicity, R?? Loewinsohn became the first poet in Harvard?? history to truck into Sanders Theatre on a motorcycle. Kevin Starr called the gesture "apocalyptic??? Loewinsohn called it "an objectification of his ???ture" (on Duncan and Ginsberg for Starr's Wester??? Lit. course). Possibly, the motorcycle entry spea??? as well for Loewinsohn's own poetry...