Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appointments and foreign affairs.* Humphrey is hobbled by his identification with the Johnson regime and unable as yet to reassert the highly individual and creative style that marked his congressional career; he worries not so much about the August convention as about November, when a Republican candidate might foreseeably walk into the White House over the wreckage of the Democratic Party. Humphrey's dilemma lies not so much in any lack of credentials for the presidency as in the changed and changing context of American policies...
...deal with a summer of violence. The state of siege that results from crime and assault is even more widespread and lasts year round, from January to December. The President's Commission on Law Enforcement found last year that one out of every three Americans is afraid to walk alone in his own neighborhood after dark...
...controversial departure in a once notoriously highhanded force. Another innovation is actually ancient. Reddin has returned to the streets a man who disappeared from Los Angeles when patrol cars came in: the cop on the beat. It is remarkable in a city where only the poor and the eccentric walk, and so far the experiment is on a tiny scale. About 30 are now pounding the pavements...
...have a sick patient here," he told newsmen. "We must decide how soon he will be able to walk and when we should remove the plaster cast. But if we decide the patient needs more plaster, we will give...
...Railway, Transport and General Workers left their jobs June 21, demanding an 18% pay increase spread over two years. Backed by a federal conciliation board, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Authority offered a 12% raise, to an average $3.48 (Canadian) an hour. At the first negotiations since the walk-out began, the union cut its demand to 15%, but the deadlock persisted. Ottawa fears that a big settlement could set off inflationary wage increases, as happened after the seaway workers won a two-year, 30% pay boost...