Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nevertheless, some 16 state and local police and National Guardsmen converged on the motel. A Negro youth, Carl Cooper, was shot to death just inside the door. Police then dragged seven or more occupants from their rooms and lined them up against a wall. After that, accounts diverge. The Negroes, whose stories shifted rather erratically, reported they were all beaten. A policeman, said one Negro, "pointed to the body and asked me what did I see, and I told him I seen a dead man. And he hit me with a pistol and told me I didn...
...times and under all circumstances. As chief rabbi of the Israeli army, Goren has had ample opportunity to practice that belief. His bushy white beard flapping in the wind, he dashed through sniper fire in Arab-held Jerusalem to become the first Israeli soldier to reach the Wailing Wall during last year's Six-Day War with the Arabs. Clutching the Torah scroll and ram's horn that are the symbols of his religion, he also led his troops to the tomb of Rachel in Bethlehem and to the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron. He would have...
...paperwork snarl-by a considerable margin the worst in Wall Street history-began when President Johnson's Viet Nam peace moves sent stocks on a spring spree. Since April 1, Big Board trading has averaged 14 million shares a day, up 40% from the first quarter. The smaller American Exchange has been hit by a 50% increase to 7,500,000 shares a day. In consequence, brokers have been unable to deliver stock certificates to customers within the allotted five business days after they are bought or sold. Compounded by increasing clerical errors, the discrepancies and slippages by last...
...Night Shift. Most Wall Street firms have abandoned their traditional 9-to-5 day, working clerical staffs overtime and Saturdays, often hiring night shifts to help with the load. Even with newly instituted training programs, brokers complain that they cannot find enough qualified help, though able receiving and billing clerks often earn $200 a week. "Clerical workers no longer apply for a job," says Vice President Charles Rosenthal of L. M. Rosenthal & Co. "They come over for coffee and doughnuts and discuss their careers...
...sales above everything else. It was 1952 before the tradition-minded Big Board finally gave up Saturday trading-and it did so then in part because brokerage firms were having trouble finding people willing to work a six-day week. Now lack of machines is an equally vexing problem-Wall Street's tardiness in mechanizing its back-office operations is a fundamental cause of its prosperous predicament...