Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Then, in 1965, a family squabble took longer than usual to simmer down. While still angry, Mrs. Cotner decided to get back at her husband by filing a sodomy charge against him. But before the case came to court, Mrs. Cotner changed her mind and tried to withdraw her complaint. She was too late; the state said that it was a criminal matter, and her husband was charged with having had anal intercourse with her. Cotner refused a lawyer, pleaded guilty and threw himself on the mercy of the court-his wife, after all, had not accused him of using...
...holds the biggest single block (34%) of A. & P. stock. They maintain that the management-dominated foundation (eight of ten trustees are present or past A. & P. executives) in effect runs the company, placing the interests of top staffers ahead of stockholders'. Fearful of inquisitive bankers, goes one complaint, A. & P. has always shied away from loans and has financed improvements largely out of its own earnings. Manhattan Art Patron Huntington Hartford, one of the grandsons of the founder, charges that the foundation is responsible for a "lavish" pension plan (up to $50,000 a year for top officers...
Other causes for complaint include long lines at check-in counters and overcrowding in airport restaurants. Much the overcrowding is due to people who come to gawk rather than fly. Parents park children at airports while they go someplace else to shop. Some airports, to keep kids in hand, have opened amusement arcades, kiddy rides and souvenir shops, which turn many a city's aerial gateway into a carnival. Says one airport executive: "Where you don't hate something to entertain the kids they write all over the walls. You do it as a defensive measure...
...Deputy Project Director for the Boston Redevelopment Authority and his Agenda displays real savvy about how cities operate and none of the common paranoia about (or rhetorical fascination with) black power. His aim is Negro "social and economic achievement" and his method is community planning and action. His first complaint is that Negro community outfits are too often mere "veto groups" that stop things but don't get anything done...
...Complaint, however, is bootless and beside the point. To say that the concert was enjoyable would be an understatement--it was stupendous. After all, with Levin's gifts as a pianist and composer and with Mozart as collaborator, how could anyone miss...