Word: waits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that Hoffa and another Teamster official had violated the Taft-Hartley Law by making $1,008,057 out of a trucking company with which the Teamsters did business. If Hoffa was worried about whether the rap would stick, he certainly managed to conceal his anxiety. During the long wait for the jury, he strutted around the corridors and delivered himself of some cocky, colorful opinions. "These FBI agents," harangued Hoffa, "are all stool pigeons. A bunch of rats and stool pigeons. Give one of them a local with 10,000 members and he'd be bankrupt in three years...
Noronha did not have long to wait. Three days later an Ethiopian guard fired a warning shot at a Katangese soldier who was approaching his post. Unhurt, the Katangese rolled down a hill in search of cover, but his comrades thought he had been hit and opened fire. Soon U.N. positions around the city were under attack. Tshombe "agreed"' to a ceasefire, but his 20,000 men kept right on fighting. "They are mad," said a Red Cross official who saw them rampaging through a township, firing at anything that moved. "They are killing their...
...flunking out students for fear of losing tuition income. Another beneficiary is the top-of-the-class high school senior who might as well get an early crack at college. Less qualified high school graduates, on the other hand, need not enter college in the fall, but can wait until midyear and use the time to prepare themselves better. And if they enter colleges with the quarter system, they can go to the summer quarter and be sophomores right on schedule by the next fall...
...Candide: Lance Weatherwax' adventures in that supposedly best of all possible worlds, the realm of dedicated acolytes of the arts. Lance (Larry Hagman), who is as handsome and unworldly as Rice Krispies and inherited millions can make him, finds, to his chagrin, that artists cannot wait to sell their souls to him or any other handy Mammon. This is scarcely fresh news and only fitfully amusing...
...mention of another Berlin blockade. In the wake of the tough U.S. stance in Cuba, East Germany's Red Boss Walter Ulbricht was now having to pass delicate hints to his people that all the promises to throw the West out of Berlin would have to wait until East Germany's economic woes were eased...