Word: clevelands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leonard Marks, wife of L.B.J.'s Information Agency chief, attended a bridge luncheon with eleven other women in fashionable Cleveland Park. In the middle of it, two men invaded the house, tied up hostess and guests, and made off with their purses and jewelry. - Two thieves with a sense of timing strolled into the Internal Revenue Service headquarters and, with the assistance of a gun, claimed a "deduction" of nearly...
Lovely Service. In Cleveland, the sect owns a string of stores with interesting names, among them "The Shabazz Kosher Market," "The Kaaba Haberdashery" and "Omar's Ice Cream Parlor." In Washington, D.C., where the movement has been active for 30 years, the Muslims own a bakery, a barber shop, a restaurant, a cleaning establishment and a printing office...
...backed off. But his appetite had been whetted. He started looking for other steel companies. By reading annual reports, he became interested in Jones & Laughlin. First there was a correct but tense meeting at the elegant Rolling Rock Country Club outside Pittsburgh, then a secret hotel-room huddle in Cleveland. Though J. & L. Chairman Charles Beeghly was far from eager to sell his controlling shares, he considered Ling's offer so generous?some analysts insist that it was too generous for LTV's good ?that he agreed to go along...
Stokes, 41, who had been boosted by Cleveland's press and industry, last May persuaded the private sector to ante up $10 million, primarily for housing and unemployment programs. That seed money for a much-touted "Cleveland: NOW!" effort has already sprouted more than $100 million in massive aid from federal matching fund programs. It has found jobs for 5,900 hardcore unemployed-more than a fourth of the city's total-and disbursed $500,000 to help black businessmen get started. It will create 4,600 new housing units by the end of next year...
Badly as they were needed, however, dollars were easier to win than the trust of white constituents, who comprise half of Gary and 66% of Cleveland. Stokes, an attractive extrovert, encouraged any citizen to bring his gripes to the mayor's office-so much so, he jokes, that the practice has "become like a parody on the old Negro spiritual Take Your Troubles to the Lord. Everyone brings his troubles to city hall...