Word: bonde
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Elegant Slumming. The salon seminar was the inspiration of a liberal committee organized to defend 21 Black Panthers indicted last April for plotting to kill policemen and dynamite a police station, department stores and a railroad right-of-way. Ten of the suspects are being held in $100,000 bond each. The Panthers note angrily that only one of the three whites arrested for actually setting dynamite charges in Manhattan office buildings in November has bail set that high. The maestro and his wife Felicia, who have long been concerned with civil liberties, agreed to allow friends who were interested...
From February to June, 1969, Sellers taught a course on black ideology at Cornell University. He graduated from Howard University in 1964 and managed Julian Bond's 1965 campaign for the Georgia House of Representatives...
...driver. Yet traffic on the world's longest bridge-tunnel has been only half of what the experts predicted. In 1969, for example, drivers paid $8,100,000 in tolls, less than half of the originally projected revenues. This discrepancy may well cause an embarrassing default on some bond interest payments...
...bridge-tunnel cost $140 million, but to provide a reserve for a rainy day, Virginia's state-run Bridge-Tunnel District raised $200 million in three bond issues. The reserve has been largely exhausted to pay interest during the past six money-losing years. Unless the district can arrange emergency financing, it will have to skip the second half-interest payment of $2,875,000 on $100 million of 5¾% C-series bonds next July. In that event, the interest obligation would accumulate but would be paid only if and when funds are available. Venturesome investors...
...that Virginia's general assembly will bail out the bridge-tunnel, though the state has no legal obligation to vote financial aid. Such a move would cost the state $5 million a year, initially. There are questions about the propriety of using tax money to pay off the bonds. The matter has caused anxious debate in the assembly, where the argument for support is that the state's reputation for fiscal integrity would be tarnished if Virginia let the bond issue of a political subdivision go into default...