Word: clark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...students take courses here that have nothing to do with their career plans or with their regular academic work. Susan Gens, a psychology major at Clark University in Worcester, is taking courses in photography and expository writing this summer...
...point, Allen Click, a boyish businessman who controls the Stardust and Fremont casino-hotels in Nevada through Argent Corp., owed $146 million. He has since turned back some California and Texas properties and reduced his obligations to about $90 million. His casinos are being investigated by the Clark County (Las Vegas) district attorney and the Nevada Gaming Control Board following charges that substantial sums were skimmed from the slot machines. La Costa Land Co., which owns the La Costa, the chic California oasis where Fitzsimmons has golfed with former President Richard Nixon, owes the fund $66.6 million. According...
...were being tied up: H.R. Haldeman and John Mitchell became the last of the indicted Watergaters to go to prison. After a 320-day trial, the Black Panthers lost their civil suit against the Chicago police who raided their quarters several ages ago?it was 1969?and killed Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. As Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset observes, "This is the first time in ten years that nothing disastrous is occurring." Americans may not believe that they are embarked on a new age, but at least they are savoring a historical pause...
Died. Tom Campbell Clark, 77, former Supreme Court Justice (1949-1967); of an apparent heart attack; in Manhattan. The genial, Texas-born Clark came to Washington in 1937 and rose quickly in the Department of Justice, where he prosecuted war fraud cases. A close associate of Senator Harry Truman, he was appointed Attorney General when Truman became President, and an Associate Justice four years later. Clark initially aroused Truman's ire by joining the court's conservative wing, but gradually moved leftward as a member of the Warren Court. He wrote several far-reaching liberal opinions, including...
...production continues at Brandeis University's Spingold Theatre in Waltham through July 17, to be followed by Shaw's "Too True to Be Good." July 19 to August 14; Vincent Youman's "Hit the Deck," August 16 to 21; and a new musical by Clark Gesner, "The Utter Glory of Morrissey Hall," August 23 through September...