Word: edward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...everybody at Harvard was surprised. James Q. Wilson, professor of Government, and Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government, agreed that the results were predictable. "Every local or state official wants to have a good reason for asking for more federal money for various programs," Banfield said. "Whatever Mayor Lindsay's prior convictions, he needs more federal money." Furthermore,, Banfield said, "it would be impossible for an official to tell his Negro community that the cause of riots are other than racial injustice...
...Toes. With the resignation of President Edward Ochab, who is 61 and nearly blind, Gomulka had sufficient strength in the Polish Sejm (Parliament) to have the post filled by a trusted lieutenant, Defense Minister Marian Spychalski, 62. The political fortunes of Spychalski, an architect by training, have waned and gained for 25 years with those of Gomulka. An underground Communist leader during World War II, he was arrested, imprisoned and tortured by Stalinists after Gomulka was purged in 1948. Never brought to trial, Spychalski left prison a cripple without toes, was made Defense Minister after Gomulka gained power...
...Died. Edward S. Crocker, 72, U.S. diplomat who in 1941, as first secretary of the embassy in Tokyo, received the official Japanese declaration of war the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed, and spent the next seven months in confinement at the embassy until the Swiss arranged his release; after a long illness; in Manhattan. "At no time in the history of civilized nations were diplomatic representatives so treated," said he of the constant harassment by Japanese police...
...days of the recent disturbances will cost the industry at least $45 million, with the biggest losses in Washington, Baltimore and Chicago. Last year the insured loss in Detroit alone was $45 million. Unless the Government steps in, there may soon be no insurance available in the ghettos, says Edward Rust, president of State Farm Insurance Cos. "There just aren't enough dollars if this rioting is to be an annual event...
...Report's harshest critics, on the other hand, argue that the Committee should not have been appointed in the first place. "I hope this does not turn out to be a historic event. It can only mark a turn for the worse," Edward C. Banfield, Henry Lee Shattuck Professor of Urban Government said...