Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco is not so much a neighborhood as a state of mindlessness. The Erewhon of America's "pot left," a 10-by-15 block midtown section, has over the past year become the center of a new utopianism, compounded of drugs and dreams, free love and LSD. It is a far cry from the original Utopia, envisioned some 400 years ago by Sir Thomas More, whose denizens demanded six hours of work each day: the 7,000 mind-blown residents of San Francisco's "Psychedelphia" demand a zero-hour day and free freak...
...shares, owned by a trust created in 1961, were vested in the foundation on Luce's death. Since the foundation already owned 191,029 shares, it will, with a total of 880,494 shares, control 12.7% of the common stock and constitute the largest single voting block. Its members include Luce's two sons, Henry III, who is president, and Peter Paul; Luce's sister, Elisabeth Luce Moore, and her husband Maurice T. Moore, a member of the Time Inc. board of directors and a partner in the Manhattan law firm of Cravath, Swaine & Moore...
Half of the world's people are undernourished, and their most crippling deficiency is in protein, the basic building block of the human body. Its lack causes mental retardation, stunted growth, early death. Now U.S. industry and Government scientists have developed an inexpensive food supplement rich in protein. It is a "flour" made by grinding up whole fish, and Interior Secretary Stewart Udall reports that it can restore balance to the diet at a daily cost of only half a cent per person. U.S. fisheries alone, he adds, can produce enough of the raw material to meet the needs...
...create a false impression of brisk activity-and is illegal in both the U.S. and Canada. On July 10, 1964, the prosecution charged, she arranged to sell 244,000 shares of Consolidated Golden Arrow Mines Ltd., another of her companies. At the same time, she bought up the entire block for the accounts of ten persons, including her husband George. Since Golden Arrow stock had been sluggish up to that point, the sudden burst of activity was enough to send its price soaring within an hour from 25? to over...
...today's press conference, Whitney B. Young, director of the National Urban League, said that "at a time when most of our academic liberals are more interested in self-determination 10,000 miles away than one mile down the block, the Dean of the greatest University in the world is making a significant sacrifice...