Word: wreckings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wreck of the Penn Central...
...Wreck of the Penn Central, Joseph R. Daughen and Peter Binzen
...kind of attack that may prove more damaging. For the first time since Daley moved into city hall almost 17 years ago, his rule has been challenged by a trusted lieutenant, and the case is being aired before a fascinated public. This unheard-of revolt could ultimately wreck Daley's machine, plunge the Illinois Democratic Party into disarray and throw a crucial state to Richard Nixon in the presidential election...
...aesthetic eye goes foraging in the wake of historical disaster. Having striven for 300 years to dispossess and wreck the Indians with gun. bottle. Bible and treaty, white America is now focusing an unprecedented degree of interest on their artifacts, which. like deposits on the verge of a shrinking lake, mark the point from which cultures drained away. A magnificent collection of these relics, selected from the so-called "historical period" of North American Indian culture (17th to 19th centuries), is now on view at Manhattan's Whitney Museum...
...they happened to come due during the freeze. Failure to satisfy the unionists could lead to a walkout of the labor members from the Pay Board and a new wave of strikes. Businessmen and Government officials fear that that would do more than almost anything else imaginable to wreck the anti-inflation program and damage an economy that is not yet showing much vigor (see following story...