Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brookline architectural firm of Salsberg and LeBlanc designed the building, to be called the Fenway-Cambridge Motor Hotel. It will consist of seven wings, each overlooking the curved Charles River, according to architect Irving Salsberg...
...everyone knows, Brown has his failings. He has shown no foresight in dealing with the Negro slums of Watts in Los Angeles and McAllister-Hunter's Point in San Francisco. His once firm support of open housing laws has faded to a hoarse whisper in the face of massive voter antagonism. In moments of crisis, particularly during the Berkeley demonstrations two years ago, he has vacillated and yielded to irrational pressures...
...building is being designed by the same architectural firm that did Leverett and Quincy Houses--Shepley, Bullfinch, Richardson, and Abbott...
...insurance scandal" has been a political football in the state for more than a year and a half. What actually happened remains obscure even now. It began in early 1965 when rumors circulated through Minnesota insurance offices that the American Allied Insurance Co., a St. Paul firm which insured high-risk drivers was financially unstable and that three Chicago brothers were diverting most of the premiums into their own pockets...
Rolvaag's administration did nothing but deny rumors until June when they took the insolvent firm to court and ordered them to cease doing business. At first it seemed that the Democrats were going to use the case simply to show off the investigative powers of an obscure attorney general--Robert Mattson--who would be up for reelection in 1966. But in late October a federal grand jury charged 17 involved in the case, including Rolvaag's state insurance commissioner, with fraud. Republicans wanted to know why Rolvaag hadn't acted earlier, and the case was swept under the carpet...