Word: weekended
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Belching diesel exhaust, 6,500 tractors lumbered along a Georgia interstate last weekend, bound for Atlanta. Meanwhile, eight "tractorcades" rumbled into Topeka, Kans., and similar demonstrations occurred in a dozen more Midwestern state capitals. In Washington, D.C., 600 tractors and other farm vehicles gathered near the Washington Monument. Across the country, farmers were rallying to show that they were ready to strike in order to force prices higher. Their motto: "No more producing, no more selling and no more buying...
Television's antiseptic neuterdom is probably as it should be, but it ought to be kept in mind when people worry about the "power" of the TV news stars. To be sure, on lesser occasions they can be bolder. On that same weekend Mike Wallace, who is skilled at off-balance questions that evoke unexpected answers, was asking a CIA witness: "You're pretty arrogant, aren't you?" Barbara Walters once felt entitled to ask the President-elect on-camera if he and Rosalynn would share a White House double bed (Carter, being a populist, didn...
...only broken O.J. Simpson's single-game rushing mark of 273 yds. (275 yds. in November's game against the Minnesota Vikings) but is also helping to keep the rebuilding Bears in contention for a play-off spot. As the season draws to an end this weekend, he has a shot at surpassing Simpson's 2,003-yd. single-year record...
...corporation will meet in New Haven this weekend to discuss the search, which began last spring when Brewster resigned to become ambassador to the Court of St. James...
Faces covered with grit and hearts filled with distrust toward both union and company leaders, the nation's 165,000 male and 800 female unionized coal miners walked off their jobs last weekend, 48 hours before the expiration Monday midnight of the United Mine Workers' contract with the coal companies. (With so little time remaining, few miners felt compelled to work beyond the shift ending at midnight Saturday, and the companies were not scheduling Monday production.) Thus began what will probably be a long stoppage, perhaps twice as long as the 32-day walkout in 1974, over...