Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ugly Image. From Berkeley to; Brooklyn, other explosions of antiwar and antidraft protest had reverberated all week...
...York, where antidraft riots during the Civil War were the most savage in the nation's history, students attempted a replay at Brooklyn College. Leaders of the leftist Students for a Democratic Society and the Communist-lining W.E.B. Du Bois clubs drummed up 1,000 screaming students (total enrollment: 25,000) to protest not only the presence on campus of two Navy recruiting officers but also the refusal of the college administration to allow a rival group to set up a non-recruiting table across from the Navy desk. Soon student fists and police clubs were flailing...
HELEN ELIZABETH BEATTIE Brooklyn...
Nest Eggs & Mattresses. For Cornfeld, that kind of sentiment has been conspicuously rare in recent months; he has made money far faster than friends. An Istanbul-born, Brooklyn-reared onetime social worker, he hit on the idea of selling mutual-fund shares to overseas G.I.s in the 1950s, soon started selling door to door to Europeans. Another successful item that he started peddling in 1962 was the Fund of Funds, consisting of shares of other mutual funds. Paying few taxes, Cornfeld's Panama-chartered I.O.S. employs 10,000 salesmen in over 100 countries, has expanded into a $250 million...
...Like the Brooklyn high school student who covered every mile of the New York subway system in twenty-four hours, Harvard senior Ravi Rikhye couldn't let well enough alone. This weekend, on a $25 Mohawk Airlines "Weekends Unlimited" pass, Rikhye flew 8400 miles in 36 hours, setting a record that will probably go unchallenged...