Word: clubs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...explicable aspects of the mystery was the reason for Kennedy's presence on the Vineyard. Vacationing with his family on Squaw Island, near Hyannisport, he had come over with R.F.K.'s oldest son Joseph to take part in the Edgartown Yacht Club races. Less easily explained is why Kennedy, no stranger to the area, tried to ram a big car across a tilted bridge that is risky by day and perilous at night. The wide macadam road that leads to the Chappaquiddick ferry slip makes a turn to the left; the narrow dirt track that leads...
Even the slightest of the plays were produced with engaging theatricality, as in the swaggering bawdiness of the Drama Club's Mandragora, the Machiavelli farce. Czech acting at its frequent best combines an animal energy with the timing of aerial acrobats. Czechs make superb comedians, and have that highest comic skill-to slip with a flash of the eye into the tragic mask. Czech direction is passionately intelligent. In Architect Josef Svoboda, they have the most imaginative stage designer working anywhere today...
...York Stock Exchange, long castigated by Government and other critics for acting as a private club run for the profit of a privileged few, moved last week to revise its membership. The exchange's Board of Governors caught many Wall Streeters by surprise by voting to allow its members to sell stock in their own firms to the public. At the same time, the board said that by year's end it would consider permitting mutual funds and other financial institutions either to join the exchange as associates or find some way to grant them discounts...
...many problems involved in public ownership and volume discounts, the Wall Street Establishment can no longer afford the luxury of putting off its decision. The SEC and the Justice Department have made clear that they are ready to step in, if necessary, to open up the club and reduce the commissions on big trades...
...Woody asked his friend the late great Lucien Price to address the Glee Club's annual banquet, Mentioning some powerful music, Price added, in that war year, "Although this world may be no great shakes, the future problematical, and no telling what may become of us, one thing is certain--so long as there is such music in the world, there is always that the world can do to us." Woody's career. right through our war-riven 1960's , was testimony to that view of music's potency...