Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...will be on the May 28 primary ballot. As matters now stand, Oregon will be his only opportunity for an eyeball-to-eyeball confrontation with Nixon in a state where he has a good chance of winning. By no coincidence whatever, many Republicans from Governor Tom McCall down are firm Rockefeller supporters. They began organizing a draft movement in January, by last week had collected more than 31,000 signatures to have their man's name placed on the ballot by petition (only 1,000 are needed). Thus Rockefeller could justify his entry in Oregon on the basis...
Frances L. Ansley '69, co-chairman of SDS, read with a mock Southern accent from an interview with a Mississippi Power director. The director admitted that his firm hired very few "colored folks...
...involved. And if they are sincere, they must get even more deeply involved and help South Viet Nam remedy past political mistakes. The Americans cannot let government leaders damage their anti-Communist goals. They must look at Viet Nam much like a business. If you invest money in a firm, you have some say about who should manage it and how he runs...
There is no question that LSD is a dangerous drug, and President Johnson last month asked Congress to make possession of it a misdemeanor, punishable with a $1,000 fine and up to a year in prison. He had the firm support of the Justice Department, but the medical men of the Food and Drug Administration were opposed on the ground that an anti-LSD law would be about as enforceable as the Volstead Act. Chief adversary was FDA Commissioner James L. Goddard, who four months ago complained publicly about the harshness of existing antimarijuana laws. In a surprising turn...
...what is really new about cassettes is their use as a vehicle for commercially recorded music. Philips, the giant Netherlands electrical manufacturer that originally developed them, has found a vast and expanding market in European homes. This year alone, the firm will turn out a million players and 9,000,000 cassettes containing 2,000 titles drawn from 90 record labels. Spurred by Philips' success, at least 40 other companies in the past year have begun moving their own cassette equipment into the U.S. market. By year's end, more than 1,000 titles will be available...