Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle stretching from last spring to this fall, the Rufo firm unsuccessfully sought an amendment to the City's zoning code to allow it to build an apartment house-office building complex on the Baird site over twice as large as zoning permitted for the site...
...troubles lie mainly in G.E.'s newer technological fields. The firm had to pay high entrance costs to break into those areas, and profits are farther into the future than managers had expected. The difficulties focus on three areas...
...South America, where you will have a real chance." Parks, a strapping 6-ft. 3-in. man, felt that he could better make his way in U.S. business-even though he is a Negro. Parks was right; he went on to found H. G. Parks Inc., a sausagemaking firm that had 1968 sales of $6,128,481 and profits of $243,812. Last week H. G. Parks offered its shares to the public for the first time, overnight becoming one of the largest publicly-owned black firms...
...Parks grew up in Dayton, Ohio. His father was a wine steward, his mother a some time domestic servant. After working his way through Ohio State ('39); he joined the Pabst Brewing Co. and later headed a small group of Negro salesmen who cultivated ghetto markets for the firm. After settling in Baltimore in 1944, he started the sausage firm in 1951. Just what he did during the years between is a bit vague...
Divorced. By Theodore C. Sorensen, 40, former presidential speechwriter and Kennedy Clan confidant, now a top partner (along with ex-U.N. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg) in a prestigious Manhattan Jaw firm; Sara Elbery Sorensen, 35, petite Cambridge, Mass., schoolteacher; on the uncontested grounds of cruelty and abandonment; after nearly five years of marriage, no children; in Manhattan...