Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...During the recent Memphis sanitation workers' strike, the adversaries had become so entrenched behind their harsh words that it appeared face could not be saved on either side. Called in to mediate the dispute, U.S. Labor Under Secretary James J. Reynolds was stymied not only by the black v. white impasse but more importantly by Memphis Mayor Henry Loeb's adamant refusal to grant a payroll checkoff for union dues. How did Reynolds break the ice? By using the Federal Credit Union, which is employee-owned but federally administered. As he reasoned, the City of Memphis...
Compassion v. Coercion. Beyond the war, the prevailing ethics of the Class of '68 place justice above the need for order, social welfare above creature comforts, compassion above coercion, people above institutions. In talking about these values, students sometimes act as if they had discovered justice and love. They also ignore the reality that undergraduates throughout history have always had ideals?some of which have been fulfilled by adult society. Condemnation of their elders occasionally comes too easily for the young today?witness the Berkeley coed who glibly condemns men who "sell their soul for higher salaries, then sink into...
...check into a cheap hotel in Durham, N.C., a desk clerk barked: "Niggers can't live here." "I've never seen as much hate as that guy showed toward me," recalls Hyndman. His personal philosophy about what matters most can be summed up simply as: "It's humanity v. machinery?and human life v. death." In campus terms, Hyndman considers himself a rebel rather than a revolutionary. "Revolution," he says, "involves the same crimes as your tormentor...
...settlement. The package negotiated by Premier Georges Pompidou-and rejected by most of the nation's striking workers -included an increase in the minimum wage from 440 to 600 an hour, a 10% general pay increase for all workers in private industry, a 40-hour week (v. an average 46.3 hours now), and improved social security medical benefits. That settlement would cost at least a total of $3 billion, but the strikers wanted more...
...victory speech, he called for an end to "violence and division." After concluding, "On to Chicago and let's win there" brushed his hair back, grinned, gave a Churchillian V-signal, and turned--to meet his would-be assassin, minutes later...