Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weeks ago the trustees decided that they had had enough of Steven. When Jesse Jones's nephew, John T. Jones Jr., a firm supporter of Steven, resigned as chairman of the board of trustees, the remaining five trustees voted to sack Steven and three top aides and replace them with the men who had run the paper in its conservative days. The trustees offered no explanations, but Steven had his own: "The conservatives scalped...
...Crusades. Tuesday concerns itself mainly with Negroes-and, in the first issue, with successful, middle-class Negroes. It has articles on CBS Reporter Joan Murray, Golf Pro Charlie Sifford, Comedians Godfrey Cambridge, Dick Gregory and Nipsey Russell, a Chicago law firm of four Harvard-trained Negroes, and Marian Anderson at home. It runs a Washington column that focuses on news of Negro politicians and civil rights, a teen page, and reviews of books about Negroes. It also has a "Tuesday Opportunities" section, which emphasizes that there are plenty of job chances for Negroes...
...Harold Brown last week inherited a problem that has caused the Air Force considerable embarrassment. One of Brown's first tasks was to meet with outgoing Secretary Eugene M. Zuckert and 13 distinguished businessmen and educators-trustees all of the embattled Aerospace Corp. Subject: how to mend the firm's badly shredded reputation. Five years ago, convinced that no private corporation could capably handle the overall systems engineering and technical direction of its missile-development program, the Air Force set up California-based Aerospace as a Government-financed, nonprofit corporation. Some of the things that went on thereafter...
...Although it worked solely at Air Force direction, Aerospace spent $1,100,000 over a four-year period to maintain its own public relations staff in California and Washington, also kept a Manhattan public relations firm on a $2,000 monthly retainer to advise it and create an independent image. In addition, it paid a Washington newsman $100 monthly, later $150, to pass on such information as advance texts of speeches by General Schriever...
...plans eventually to harvest his own rubber from his 5,000-acre plantation. A former office worker, Ade Tuyo, 63, cast around for a business that would have 'first priority in people's spending" opened a bakery that today has four shops and makes 115 products. The firm's unusual name-De Facto Works Ltd.-was shrewdly chosen by Tuyo to impress Nigerian bankers with the fact that he was seriously in business