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...Black civil rights movement were for most Radcliffe students no more than faint impressions gained from an occasional radio news broadcast. Many alumnae remember being aware of the rise and fall of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, but mostly because of his direct attacks on Harvard, and an unusual foray into foreign policy undertaken by the Crimson. McCarthy had gone out of his way to portray the University as a den of Marxist saboteurs during his years at the helm of the Senate Committee on Investigations. In 1955, already censured for his extraordinary red-baiting campaign, he returned to the limelight...
...American Express, the Shearson deal marked the end of a long, and sometimes embarrassing, search for a major acquisition. In 1972 American Express made a disastrous foray into the securities business by buying a 25% interest in Donaldson, Lufkin Jenrette, now Wall Street's 18th largest firm, for $29.3 million. Three years later, American Express gave up that investment for only $6.4 million. Then in 1979 American Express attempted an unfriendly takeover of McGraw-Hill, but the board of directors of the publishing firm unanimously rejected...
...Bookings became scarce after a couple of years, and Bobby returned to Danville to finish high school. After that, it was back to the piano and the saloons of Chicago, and then Los Angeles, where he stayed, off and on, for more than a decade. He made one brief foray to New York, but he did not do well at the old Blue Angel nightclub and, nursing his hurt pride, retreated west again. "The most burning desire I had," he says, "was to come back to New York and conquer it. Manhattan seemed like the most amusing place...
...timing. The British press and public were growing weary of the Profumo scandal and its sleazy aftershocks; what was needed was a little innocent fun. The newly fluffed and tailored Beatles stumbled into this void and instantly filled it. The same thing happened when the group made an uncertain foray into the U.S.; a nation grieving for a murdered President took four cuddly bits of good news and their bright close harmonies to its heart...
...accessed," in computer jargon-one of the company's computers. Even worse, they had actually "seized control" of the electronic brain, blocking the network's legitimate users from getting on line, and were systematically destroying data. The raids continued for more than a week. During one foray, 10 million "bits" of information, almost one-fifth of the computer's storage capacity, were temporarily lost...