Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stumbling block is the general disrepair of many state and local governments. Unless they shape up-and soon-warned John Gardner, they will turn into "mere branch offices of one all-dominating national government." Maine's Democratic Senator Edmund Muskie, who, as chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Intergovernmental Relations, has probed deeply into the problem, agrees. "We want to save local autonomy from what could be its own destruction," he told Indiana's legislature last week. "If state and local governments do not take effective steps to meet the urban crisis, for example, someone will have...
...fraternity hecklers, and 75 students responded by staging a sit-down. It was then that the Vice-Chancellor, Earl F. Cheit, dispatched nearly 100 sheriff's deputies and university police to arrest six non-students, among them Savio, for trespassing and creating a public disturbance. When students attempted to block the police bus carrying Savio and the five others away, three were arrested...
Mention Sunset Strip to anybody over 30, and he will recall the twelve-block stretch between Beverly Hills and Hollywood as the playground of the stars, the place where the Gables and Grables, the Harlows and Hayworths came in their long black limousines and super-convertibles to gambol at Giro's, Mocambo and the Trocadero...
Good Humor Man. Mahoney, who was personally recruited by Simon for the chief executive's chair, seems effervescent enough for the task. A New York City native who now occupies a Park Avenue apartment scarcely a block from the old East Side neighborhood in which he was born, Mahoney began his business career as a mailroom clerk in the advertising agency of Ruthrauff & Ryan. While working at the job, he commuted to Philadelphia's Wharton School of Finance, ultimately earned both a business-school degree and an account executive's office at Ruthrauff & Ryan...
...Mahoney appointment is the kind of creativity that Simon enjoys. Canada Dry has long been run by Roy W. Moore, 75, as chairman, and Moore's son, Roy Jr., 47, as president and chief executive. Both fought Simon vigorously two years ago when he bought a block of stock and first sought a seat on the board of directors. But the Moores were open to the criticism that Canada Dry, with a market in both soft drinks and whisky and sales of $171 million annually, has failed to live up to its marketing possibilities in spite of a record...