Word: firming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with it to the end. This is not the way of Nat Owings and Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. If one looks at the works of S.O.M., there is an astonishing range and volume of design. S.O.M. does not play variations on a theme and is perhaps the first major architectural firm to remain uncommitted to its past...
...Greek who owns that shipbuilding firm," declared a third...
Maryland's Negroes had helped boost Agnew to victory in 1966 and generally considered him a firm friend. After April, his black support shriveled virtually to nothing. Today he is anathema to Maryland Negroes. He criticized national "preoccupation with civil liberties" at the expense of security, said that police were justified in shooting looters if they failed to obey commands to halt, assailed President Johnson for allowing the Poor People's Campaign to camp on federal land. He attacked the Kerner Commission for abetting rioting by talking of white racism. There is "an aura of belief," he said shortly before...
...promised you that we would stand firm," Dubček told his people in a radio message after the Cierna summit. "I will tell you frankly that you can be well satisfied with the results of this meeting. We have kept the promises that we gave you." In sympathetic Yugoslavia, Radio Belgrade announced that Dubček had "successfully defended more than he has had to concede." Describing the dimensions of the setback to Soviet foreign policy, the station said that the campaign of pressure against the Czechoslovaks was "a blasphemy, a heavy political blunder and a failure...
Died. Herbert V. Kohler Sr., 76, crusty, conservative chairman of Kohler Co., the big plumbing-fixture firm that weathered the longest major strike in U.S. history; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Sheboygan, Wis. Struck by U.A.W. Local 833 in 1954 (among the issues: binding arbitration and a seniority rule in layoffs), Kohler held out for 81 years and kept his factory open with strikebreakers until the National Labor Relations Board finally forced him to the bargaining table...