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ATER flashing warning signals for more than a year, four unions representing 80% of the railroads' work force stalked off their jobs last week in a nationwide strike that raised an awesome specter. If the strike dragged on, the nation would face grave paralysis of its heavy-duty transportation lifelines. Fears grew that fresh fruits and vegetables, substantial amounts of which are shipped by rail, along with meat, milk, eggs and other perishables, would become increasingly scarce on store shelves. The halting of coal shipments brought concern about mine shutdowns and power failures. In Detroit, automakers worried that they...
...specter is haunting the United States these days, and they call it Women's Liberation," she began...
...More cordial relations might provide both countries with leverage against Soviet power. Just as the specter of U.S.-Soviet collusion worries the Chinese, closer relations between Washington and Peking just might persuade the Soviets to pursue a more cautious policy...
...reason for the drug culture, for revolution, for almost any of the consuming passions made have experienced since 1945. He uses the Chinese Cultural Revolution as a paradigm for man's attempt to redefine the boundaries and re-establish the concept of immortality, while defying the specter of death which the bomb has established. "The activist response to symbolic death," he says, "or to what might be called unmastered death anxiety, is a quest for rebirth. One could in fact view the entire Cultural Revolution as a demand for the renewal of Communist life. It is, in other words...
Haunted by the grisly specter of a Charles Manson cult, the frightened residents of the county turned on the numerous hippie communes dotting the surrounding hills. One recalled Mrs. Ohta complaining about the hippies two months earlier. A friend remembered that Dr. Ohta had recently chased uninvited young people away from his swimming pool...