Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jeremiah Stamler, a director for the Chicago Board of Health and associate professor at Northwestern. On hearsay evidence, and sometimes not even that, the late Joe Pool (D-Tex.) tried to link Stamler's name with known Communists. This time, with the support of a solidly Republican law firm, Stamler sued HUAC as soon as it issued him a subpoena. The suit argues that the Committee's mandate violates the guarantees of the First Amendment...
Huson Jackson of Sert, Jackson and Associates, said that his architectural firm is redrawing plans for the building. The new plans will exclude over 70,000 sq. ft. of floor space allocated for computing facilities...
...wide light shafts rising the full height of the nine-story building. It is extraordinarily accessible, with a subway station nearby and even has a concourse running through its ground floor. "It is the nexus of a lot of pedestrian routes in the city," says Architect Noel McKinnell, whose firm, Kallmann, Mc-Kinnell & Knowles, won the competition to design the building as the centerpiece of Boston's 60-acre Government Center...
...sheer gall, few takeover artists have rivaled Saul P. Steinberg, 29, chairman of 71-year-old Leasco Data Processing. Last year his Manhattan computer-leasing firm gained control of Reliance Insurance, a large multi-line company, and squeezed a $100 million dividend out of its coffers to finance other Leasco operations. Last week Steinberg admitted at Leasco's annual meeting that his takeover appetite has grown so big that he would like to swallow Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $9 billion). Chemical Chairman William S. Renchard has promised...
With love and hate, he recalls his father, a shambling insurance salesman who proselytizes for the religion of security, yet suffers from chronic constipation because his intestinal tract is in the hands of the firm of "Worry, Fear & Frustration." In a life devoted to trying to please his parents, Portnoy confesses that his penis was all he could call...