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...sign on one of the freshman dorms in the Yard read "RFK for President--McCarthy for Sec. of State." Silly as it was, it indicated a number of things. First, most of the students who are against the war and have hitherto supported McCarthy will now flock to the sure winner, the only man who can get us out of the mess. Second, it showed that we have come to realize how important the office of Secretary of State is, that it dwarfs the Vice-presidency. And third, it revealed a naivete about what things will be like once Bobby...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KENNEDY-BUNDY FOREIGN POLICY | 3/23/1968 | See Source »

Those were mighty targets indeed for a 64-year-old company that, until barely two years ago, had pretty much stuck to real estate dealings (primarily in the New York area), with yearly revenues of less than $10 million a year and only modest ambitions. No longer. A flock of acquisitions in container making, aerospace equipment and other areas has rocketed City's sales from $8,500,000 in 1966 to a current rate of $400 million a year. If they get formal stockholder approval, last week's moves for Moore & McCormack (1967 sales: $100 million) and Allis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: Rookie of the Week | 3/22/1968 | See Source »

...which time, he started pulling some strings, and a flock of marionettes rose up from under the table and danced. Dozens danced, until a giant hand--20 feet in diameter and the same shade of white as his hair--stomped down on him and his marionettes and reduced them to so much apple-sauce...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: A Tale Of Two Mitties | 3/5/1968 | See Source »

...vapid promises, black pocketbook power has become an effective, constructive force. In less than two years, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, 26, a burly, apothegmatizing King lieutenant who praises the Lord and believes in the might of economics, has wrested work from ghetto businessmen for 3,000 of his flock and boosted South Side Negroes' annual income by $22 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Black Pocketbook Power | 3/1/1968 | See Source »

...HOPE DESERT GOLF CLASSIC (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Such pros as Arnold Palmer and Jack Nicklaus along with a flock of golfing celebrities join Bob in his ninth annual tourney, live from Palm Desert, Calif. Final round on Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 2, 1968 | 2/2/1968 | See Source »

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