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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chamber of Commerce meeting in Yonkers, N.Y., Bobby Kennedy proposed a three-point attack on the "explosion of violence and crime" that is "spreading like a cancer across the land," including more and better-paid policemen and greater attention to low-income neighborhoods. New York's Mayor John V. Lindsay, whose police force is trying to cope with a 22.7% upsurge in major crimes in the past year, warned of an increasing "polarization" between affluent whites and impoverished Negroes and Puerto Ricans in U.S. cities...
...mobile antiaircraft batteries. So serious is the increase in traffic that the U.S. is now bombing more in Laos than in North Viet Nam. In December the U.S. flew 6,722 combat sorties over Laos, hitting fuel dumps, traffic and gun emplacements along the Trail, v. only 5,692 over North Viet Nam. Even so, roughly 80% of the trucks get through, and the U.S. Marines at Khe Sanh were oiling their weapons in preparation for the worst. Other Marines at "The Rock Pile," the fallback base 16 miles northeast of Khe Sanh, hurried to complete an airstrip so that...
Teamsters v. Teamsters. Detroit has turned into a comedy of strikes. No sooner had the Press and News stopped publishing than three interim papers sprang up, ready to reap lush profits. Interestingly enough, the Teamsters, who had called the strike in the first place, were intimately involved in the publication of two of the new papers. All went swimmingly until the Teamsters' local demanded the same stiff wage increase from the interim papers that they had asked of the dailies: a 10% hike over two years, plus a $46 benefit package. Teamsters wanted the papers to hire...
During the football season, CBS's coverage was rarely in the same league with the other networks. Yet its games averaged 17 million viewers v. NBC's 9,000,000 and ABC's 6,300,000. The reason is simply that CBS outbid the competition for the established, sure-draw National Football League, while NBC settled for the newer American Foot ball League and ABC was left with college games...
...executives are: President--Deborah A. Batts '69; Vice-President/treasurer--Mary J. Goethals '69; Secretary/Nominating Chairman--Susan A. Denker '70; NSA Representatives--Ann V. Bastian '70 and Ellen Messer '70; College Council Representatives--Judith E. Smith '70 and Sandra C. Walker...