Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hatcher were white, he would be certain of victory; the machine has made Indiana's second biggest city a Democratic fiefdom for more than 50 years. As a Negro, he must campaign on ability and personality. He has both, and already has firm plans to wipe out the prostitution and gambling that have made "Steel City U.S.A."-as its boosters like to call it-synonymous with vice in a large section of the Midwest. "I hope to give the people of Gary an administration of which they can be proud," Hatcher says without a trace of braggadocio...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, said yesterday that Harvard had no plans to raise rent, evict tenants, or otherwise change the operation of the building. Actual operation will be in the hands of the R.M. Bradley real estate firm -- the same firm which ran the building for the previous owners...
This recommendation, in effect, placed the commission at odds with the President's privacy bill. Jawarski and his group had held firm. The commission technically avoided directly opposing the President's bill by recommending only that "Congress should enact legislation dealing specifically with wiretapping and bugging." The report nevertheless provides ammunition for opponents of the administration bill...
...Chairman William S. Vaughn made it clear that Kodak had no intention of restoring the agreement. With that, Florence called for a protest pilgrimage of Negroes to Rochester on July 24, the third anniversary of the city's riots. Meanwhile, Kodak has hired a Harlem-based public relations firm, Uptown Associates, to promote its products in "ethnic markets"-apparently in hopes of forestalling any Negro boycott. Otherwise, the company is conducting business as usual. The man who signed the controversial document is still on the job. And Kodak expects to go on quietly recruiting Negro employees through other community...
...Brazil. Returning voluntarily four months later, Gilbert has since lived a life that belies his onetime jet-set status. With his assets frozen by a $1,700,000 federal tax lien and much of his income earmarked for creditors, he has been running a modest Manhattan lumber wholesale firm, living quietly with his second wife Turid and their two children...