Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...success of future programs will hinge on the police department's ability to establish a firm--and possibly sometimes friendly--rapport with the Rangers. This can only happen if the police begin to treat the Rangers fairly and communicate with them as individual youngsters with distinct problems. Getting the confidence of the Rangers will not be easy, especially for police who are, by definition, working at cross-purposes with the gang. Racial and class differences complicate the problem. In addition, a Blackstone Ranger's entire life has taught him to trust no one. Typically a Ranger comments, "Nobody kept...
...young architect in I.M.Pei's firm has since November been working full time dreaming up design ideas for the neighborhood (one far-out possibility: enclosing a mile of elevated line inside a high-rise commercial complex, burying the heavily traveled truck route that runs under it, and turning the ground level into a pedestrian mall...
Raymond and May, a White Plains planning firm, has been commissioned by D & S to develop a master plan for the area. The architectural schemes will be accommodated to the plan, and then D & S can look around for financing. Much will come from the government. Edward J. Logue's chief value to the operation, say those involved in it, is his knowledge of federal aid programs; he is the recognized expert in getting for a project every penny to which it's legally entitled...
Married. Alfred A. Knopf, 74, Manhattan book publisher (Freud, Mann, Mencken, Sartre, Updike), who in 1960 sold his firm to Random House for about $3,000,000, while remaining as board chairman; and Helen Hedrick, 64, sometime novelist (The Blood Remembers, which Knopf published in 1941); both for the second time (his first wife died last year; her husband died in 1963); in Rio de Janeiro...
...Ruth Houghton Axe, 67, economist and financier, the only woman to head a mutual fund, who met her writer-economist husband, Emerson Wirt Axe, while she was assistant editor of the Annalist, a financial weekly, in 1932 formed with him E. W. Axe & Co., investment counselors, helped run the firm until his death in 1964, then took the reins herself, directing with boundless energy its four mutual funds and private-investment accounts worth $500 million from a turreted 45-room Westchester County castle; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...