Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crime, punishable by up to 20 years in prison, to give, solicit or advocate the giving of material aid to "any hostile foreign power"-North Viet Nam, for instance -or to impede the movements of U.S. military personnel and materiel. Some protest groups have collected funds to buy medical supplies for Vietnamese Communists, and on a few occasions have attempted to block troop trains-acts that would be treasonable in war time but are difficult to punish legally in peacetime. Chairman Joe Pool of Texas, sponsor of the bill, and his subcommittee colleagues summoned both the practitioners of these methods...
Doubts of Others. It is an offer that many African leaders cannot ignore. Although they condemn apartheid, they find that they can buy many goods more cheaply from South Africa than from any place else in the world; during the first four months of this year, South African exports to Africa totaled $78 million, up 30% from the year before...
...white schools, even to sit on park benches bearing the insulting words Slegs vir blankes (For whites only). They may spend their money in white stores and invest in the stock market, but to mail a letter they must enter the post office through a separate door and buy their stamps at a separate window. "South Africa," says Laurence Gandar, editor in chief of Johannesburg's Rand Daily Mail, "is a nation that has lost...
...original SEC suit, filed in the spring of 1965, charged that 14 men had used advance knowledge of a copper ore strike in Timmons, Ont, to buy stock in Texas Gulf Sulphur. Lamont was initially said to be the only man not to have profited personally from the information; the original suit merely said that he had passed the information on to a friend, who had made large purchases for several banking clients. The suit was later amended, however, to charge that Lamont had bought securities for himself...
...privilege of putting all this between covers is one for which Kuttner might have to pay, to the tune of several hundred dollars, but that threat makes the task of dinosaur-fighting just that much more appealing. "I don't give a dawn whether they buy it or not, as long as they read it. If they're not interested, I don't want them to touch it." He enjoys talking like a boy-with-mission and, if the magazine survives beyond its next issue, he's probably found as good a mission as any. "But look," he says...