Word: brooklyn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...antiwar "demo," the mood was almost festive. There were sloppily dressed youths from Brooklyn and The Bronx and acres of miniskirted thighs, but most of the marchers, dressed in business suits or neat uniforms, looked like the kind of people who think bananas are for eating...
...recommended use of safflower-oil capsules made by Cove Vitamins and Pharmaceuticals, and then was used in Cove promotion. Trouble was, the capsules were virtually useless in the prescribed doses. At least that was the contention of the Food and Drug Administration, and last week a federal jury in Brooklyn finally found Taller guilty on eight counts of mail fraud, three of violating FDA regulations and one of conspiracy. He faces a maximum sentence of 50 years...
Beyond the Suburbs. Brooklyn-born Levitt, who began building houses on Long Island in 1929 with his late father Abe and his late brother Alfred, solved his management problem painfully. After losing $763,155 in 1961, he decentralized his operations, surrounded himself with youthful aides (the average age of his five senior vice presidents is 43), began training second-echelon executives because "there's no place for us to steal talent from." Wall Street has responded to Levitt's resulting 20%-a-year growth by lifting the price of Levitt & Sons stock on the American Stock Exchange from...
...CHOSEN, by Chaim Potok, pits a pair of Jewish teen-agers against one another with a backdrop of Brooklyn in the closing days of World...
...years, he liked to spend the off season at home, playing for Havana in the Cuban Winter League. Then, in 1962, former Brooklyn Dodger Outfielder Sandy Amorós, who saved the 1955 World Series for the Bums with his spectacular centerfield snag off Yogi Berra, took a very mean curve from Fidel Castro. The Beard decided that Sandy should stay in the bush league, kept him in Cuba for five years. Finally Sandy, 37, succeeded in getting passage for himself, his wife Migdalia and 13-year-old daughter Eloísa aboard one of the twice-daily Varadero...