Word: scaling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...ghetto residents is the tough treatment that blacks often get from the police. Last week, after the Philadelphia police deaths, police raided three Black Panther headquarters and at one of them forced the male blacks to strip on the sidewalk for a search. To ease tension during large-scale demonstrations, John Spiegel of Brandeis suggests a variation of the student marshal system used to cool the crowds during the May 1 pro-Panther rally on the New Haven Green. If neighborhood marshals were put to good use where confrontation is likely, they might be more effective than cops from outside...
...than a symbol of a radical movement. But the jury's verdict did not resolve some issues. Who was ultimately responsible for killing Alex Rackley? Was the Panther hierarchy culpable? State Prosecutor Arnold Markle has his own plans to find out. Seven more Panthers, including Party Chairman Bobby Scale, still await trial in the case...
...legal title to the tidelands 20 years ago, the issue seemed to be settled. The states lost on legal principle in court, then won from Congress concessions within the three-mile limit. New claimants and new oil prospects, however, have reopened the contest over submerged lands on a grand scale...
...Central into bankruptcy have subsided. Indeed, conditions have eased so much that two tiny banks-Canal National Bank of Portland, Me., and Citizens Bank of Jonesboro, Ark.-in the past two weeks have cut their "prime" loan rate (the minimum charge from which all other rates on business loans scale upward) from 8% to 7½%. Big-city banks are not yet ready to follow, but moneymen are increasingly hopeful that they will do so sometime this fall. Commerce Secretary Maurice Stans at week's end went further to say that he could foresee the prime rate...
Militant Wildcats. The sharp rise in prices is exceeded only by wage demands unprecedented in scale, and by the militancy with which they are sought. Basic wage rates rose a steep 9.9% in the seven months from January to July, compared with 5.4% for all of 1969. By one estimate, there has been a daily average of ten work stoppages so far this year among the companies that supply parts to Britain's auto industry. Now a four-week wildcat strike by 5,000 metalworkers at GKN Sankey Ltd., a major manufacturer of car parts, has halted automakers...