Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What had this to do with Robert Kennedy? Journalists quickly recalled that Kennedy, in his campaigning on the West Coast, had restated his position that the U.S. had a firm commitment to Israel's security. In New York, Arab Spokesman M. T. Mehdi talked darkly of the "frustration of many Arabs with American politicians who have sold the Arab people of Palestine to the Zionist Jewish voters." That suggested a motive, but District Attorney Evelle Younger and State Attorney General Thomas Lynch wanted to avoid any such discussion until the trial. Thus they were aghast, and said so, when Mayor...
...into the Center Left coalition with the Christian Democrats for another five-year term. The party, however, had other ideas for regaining working-class support and recovering its voting losses. Overriding Nenni, Socialist delegates voted to stay out of the Center Left alliance until the Christian Democrats gave a firm commitment to carry out the leftist reforms in housing conditions, higher education and social welfare that they had promised-but not delivered-in the previous government...
...career in 1964 with a hit song that he wrote in twelve minutes (Walking in the Sand). Now he produces the Vanilla Fudge, the New York Rock & Roll Ensemble and Janis Ian (Society's Child), is training three protégés at his own commune-style firm on Long Island. An autocrat in the studio, he does his own arranging and most of his engineering, proclaims: "I am the greatest producer in the business. I am also an egomaniac...
...ordinary times, U.N. Alloy Steel Corp. would scarcely be a phenomenon to excite Wall Street. Even though the ten-year-old, Boston-based firm, which imports and distributes Japanese and Austrian specialty steel products, showed an 18% return on its invested capital, its profits last year reached only $315,529. It operates with seven warehouses and 30 salesmen. Yet last week, when Alloy Steel brought out its first public issue of common stock, eager buyers not only snapped up the entire 358,150-share offering at $10, but bid the price up to $19 a share in the first hour...
...issue fad has also spread heavily to franchising chains and medical-service firms including convalescent homes. The stock of year-old Minnie Pearl's Chicken System Inc., a Nashville-based franchiser of fried-chicken outlets, has jumped from $20 to $44.50 since it was issued May 1. American Medicorp Inc., formed in January to buy and run hospitals (it now owns three), last month brought out a 345,000-share issue at $20; last week it was selling at $43.50. Superior Surgical Manufacturing Co., a textile firm that makes white garments for both doctors and bakers, has climbed from...