Word: push
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...modern form of highway robbery, the militant Teamsters imposed a 15% increase, thus setting a target for the rest of organized labor. To head off what could have been a nation-paralyzing strike, Congress voted to give a boost of 13½% to some 350,000 railway workers. Wage-push inflation got its strongest nudge in construction; union craftsmen wrung out raises averaging 17½%. As a result, many skilled workers will be earning about $20,000 a year by 1972. Building pay is so lofty partly because many of the 18 craft unions have for years resisted opening their...
...grams generate waves throughout the Navy, the main impact among the some 40 ships of the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean has been to push all commanders into a new concern for the dependents of their seagoing officers and men. When the U.S.S. Springfield recently put into Malta, more than 20 petty officers' wives from the ship's home port of Gaeta awaited the ship's arrival, because for the first time their husbands were permitted to spend nights ashore at a transient stop. Some 450 men from the carrier John F. Kennedy are flying home for Christmas thanks...
...crisis of October 1962, when the U.S. and the Soviet Union came closer to nuclear war than at any time before or since. The 13 days of that near-apocalypse are vividly recalled this week by one of the two men who could have given the actual orders to push the button: former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev. Khrushchev's recollections, focusing on his years in power, are excerpted in LIFE and 19 foreign publications, and will appear shortly in the Little, Brown book Khrushchev Remembers...
...consider myself a radical person," Jones said. "I think the CFIA is full of shit. But every time SDS does something like this, freedom of speech dropsdown a notch. Every time you push the pig, the more you get it angry-you're not hurting...
...calls, with a bit of fuming and fussing as he tries to work the thing. "Technology gone mad," he has been heard to mutter. One day when a picturephone call came in, Ehrlichman's large, balding head materialized on Kissinger's screen and his deep voice intoned: "Push the center button, Henry...