Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because brokers are unable to obtain stock certificates within the five-day period (raised last month from four days) allotted for payment and delivery after every securities transaction. The problem-still far from solved-snowballs, and as a result, customers sometimes wait weeks for the stock certificates, order confirmations, account statements and dividend checks that they once got in days...
...Motorsman Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, on an inspection tour of European operations, the worst was saved for last. Landing at Cologne, Ford and Knudsen needed only to look out the window of their private plane to see lots filled with Ford-made cars-part of the 45,000 that presently account for 56% of all West Germany's unsold autos. Ford sales for last January were off 35% and production schedules have been cut by one-third. Finally, arriving at the company's Cologne headquarters, Ford and Knudsen found half a dozen empty executive suites; they had been vacated...
...early history of Harvard football is both strange and exciting. The first recorded account of a Harvard football game is an epic poem entitled "The Battle of the Delta." These verses, attributed to Rev. James C. Richmond 1827, sing mock praise of a fierce football fight between the freshmen and sophomores in the autumn...
...first game, played under Harvard rules, the Canadian visitors seemed totally confused. A contemporary newspaper account described the McGill players as "standing in the field merely as spectators of their opponents' excellent kicking." Scoring at will, Harvard fulfilled--for the first time--its 10,000 men's most fervent desire...
...conference opened last night with Mrs. Barbara Haber discussing her paper, "Getting by With a Little Help From Our Friends," an account of her experiences as a political radical...