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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...know-how attained, money remains the other obstacle for black business. A Roxbury businessman, encountering difficulty collecting collateral for a bank loan, asked Williams for backing. Freedom Industries sold him old supermarket shelving, refrigerators, and cases at $1000, and the bank, accepting his acquisition as collateral equal to $9000, granted him the loan...

Author: By Nancy C. Anderson, | Title: A New Power In Roxbury; The Ghetto Means Money | 2/24/1969 | See Source »

...LOVE OUR CHILDREN.") It is more damning than anything in Roth's last novel, a story of an unwed mother in the great Midwest called When She Was Good (1967). And there are a few bits reminiscent of Goodbye, Columbus (1959), like an incident in which a Jewish businessman insists that the theme from Exodus be pumped into an operating room "so everyone should know what religion he is." Still, there are many spots where Roth omits scenes that beg to be told. We see Portnoy berate a girl called The Monkey when she dresses up like a whore...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Portnoy's Complaint | 2/22/1969 | See Source »

...jurors leaned forward intently, Businessman Clay Shaw, accused of having conspired to commit the murder, stood next to the jury box, chain smoking, his face impassive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Dallas Revisited | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

...particularly interesting lead was provided by a letter that Markovic. wrote, shortly before his death, to his brother Aleksander, a Trieste businessman and once captain of the yacht of Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito. In that letter Stevan told his brother that "if anything happens to me, address yourself to Alain Delon, to his wife and to his associate Francois Marcantoni, a real gangster . . ." Police seized Marcantoni, once linked with the Corsican Mafia, and began putting him through a long series of interrogations that are still going on. So far, however, he has not incriminated himself. "They want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: The Bodyguard | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

Died. Cameron Hawley, 63, bestselling author, whose four novels were mainly reflections of his 24 years as a businessman; of a heart attack; in Marathon, Fla. Hawley retired from Armstrong Cork Co. in 1951 to write his first novel, Executive Suite, a simplistic look at high-level corporate intrigue, and followed that with two more variations on the same theme (Cash Mc-Call, The Lincoln Lords), all of which made him far wealthier than most of his business colleagues. He suffered a heart attack in 1962, and his recent novel, The Hurricane Years, is a disquieting disquisition on the physiological...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 21, 1969 | 2/21/1969 | See Source »

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