Word: daytons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would be difficult to turn a story about a boy and his pet hawk into a movie that was anything other than clean. But when Baker's Hawk began running last week at 350 U.S. moviehouses, it was evident that cab driver-turned-movie mogul Lyman Dayton had taken no chances. Hawk contains no sex, no profanity beyond "damn" and "hell," no bloodshed and only a suggestion of lawlessness (a band of vigilantes reacts to a crime wave that the audience never sees). Burl Ives, who teaches the boy (Lee Montgomery) how to train his bird, helps the movie...
...Dayton...
That kind of positive attitude would help in other cities that are desegregating this fall-Omaha, St. Louis, Milwaukee and Dayton. At least that is one of the findings of a report issued last week by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In a 315-page study, the bipartisan five-member commission concludes that in spite of the bitterness and violence that arose in some cities, most notably Boston and Louisville, in recent years most school desegregation in the U.S. "has gone peacefully and smoothly." The commission based its report on four hearings (in Boston, Louisville, Denver and Tampa...
...going to be President, that's what's doing." It was well past midnight in the empty Jimmy Carter headquarters in Atlanta, and Hamilton Jordan, the campaign director, was talking to Rosalynn Carter, the candidate's wife. She was sitting alone in a motel room in Dayton, concerned about her husband's recent primary defeats. So was Jordan, who was dead tired but sounding cheerful...
...example, Teamster Boss Rocco dePerno drew nearly $20,000 in 1974, over and above his regular salary of $46,000 and the $30,890 he got as a general organizer. Even non-Teamsters share the pension riches. In 1974 the administrator of the Ohio Drivers' Welfare Fund, Dayton Attorney Robert Knee Jr., was paid $878,900-about 5.5% of the fund's assets...