Word: fightingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Keating let it be known that he has only begun to fight. Denouncing the board meeting that ousted him as "illegal," he called a stockholders' meeting for May 8 to present his case. He also demanded the return of a $215,000 loan that he claims he made to Ramparts, threatens to go to court for the cash. "I put $860,000 into the magazine," Keating said on television, "and they threw me out like an old shoe. That's the history of Ramparts. When people are no longer financially important, out they...
...biggest employer in Rochester, N.Y. (pop. 300,000), Kodak has been under fire for months from a militant civil rights organization headed by Florence and bearing the acrimonious acronym FIGHT (for Freedom, Integration, God, Honor-Today). Founded after the city's Negro riots in 1964, FIGHT soon insisted that it be allowed to recruit 600 Negroes for training and employment by Kodak. Amid mounting pressure, a Kodak assistant vice president designated to hold talks with FIGHT signed a document last Dec. 20, bowing to its demands. No sooner was that agreement reached, however, than Kodak repudiated it as "unauthorized...
...products in "ethnic markets"-apparently in hopes of forestalling any Negro boycott. Otherwise, the company is conducting business as usual. The man who signed the controversial document is still on the job. And Kodak expects to go on quietly recruiting Negro employees through other community agencies that, unlike FIGHT, have asked for no exclusive agreements...
Died. Archbishop Le Huu Tu, 73, Roman Catholic Vietnamese religious leader and nationalist, who in the late 1940s formed his own paramilitary force to fight with Ho Chi Minh against the French, then in 1954 fled South, where he fought the Communists and, despite failing health, devoted himself to resettling and assisting the 1,000,000 refugees from the North who followed his example; of cancer; in Saigon...
...When I'm gone," Cassius Clay said last week, "boxing will go to the graveyard." Clay is gone now, gone to his own graveyard, dumped there by sportswriters, chauvinists, and fight promoters. And sure as his name is Muhammad Ali, he will drag boxing along with...