Word: counter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under the "full disclosure law," companies with at least 750 stockholders and assets of $1,000,000 will be required to file detailed financial reports to the Securities and Exchange Commission. Thus firms whose stock is traded over the counter will now be subject to the same rules as listed companies in such matters as issuing proxy statements, making regular reports to stockholders and providing information on trading in the stock by corporation officials and principal shareholders. Gone will be much of the treasured privacy of the some 3,000 companies that fall under the new law-and gone...
...Kearsarge (famed for its recovery of orbiting U.S. astronauts), swept into the South China Sea to watch for Red China's roving fleet of submarines. A squadron of Air Force F-102 supersonic interceptors bolted from Clark Field in the Philippines to bases in South Viet Nam to counter any attempt by the Chinese to bolster the Viet Minh with jets. Amphibious landing craft silently embarked for undisclosed destinations...
...scene, Harlem's leaders are quarrelsome and grasping. A few weeks ago, the Rev. Robert M. Kinloch, head of a largely paper outfit called the Independent Community Improvement Association, turned up to picket a 125th Street cafeteria to protest "the lack of a black face behind the counter." Suddenly the Rev. Nelson Dukes turned up to "mediate" in his capacity as head of the Blue Ribbon Organization for Equal Opportunity Now. The pickets shouted "Uncle Tom" at Dukes, and Kinloch complained, "This is my demonstration and my pickets...
Anything You Like. As Singapore's rioting subsided into sullen, sporadic outbursts, Prime Minister Abdul Rahman was still busy in Washington. To counter Indonesia's threat that it will "crush Malaysia"-which it probably could do, thanks to Soviet aid in arms and training-the Tunku was seeking U.S. military assistance. Sukarno, said the Tunku, "is to us what Hitler was to Europe...
Those charged with trespassing entered the Bick at about 11:30 p.m. and, by their own admission, lined up with their backs against the counter so as to keep anyone from being served. The night manager then called the regular manager of the Harvard Square restaurant, Joseph Belinski...