Word: franked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thursday to the officially closed, eerily deserted Time-Life Building, where a skeleton staff was working without air conditioning or normal lighting. An emergency generator installed after the '65 blackout was used to run one elevator and the telex machines. Among those on hand were Associate Editor Frank Merrick, who wrote our cover story, and Associate Editor Frederic Golden, who wrote an accompanying article on why it all happened. The senior editors for the whole project were Marshall Loeb and Ronald Kriss. Says Kriss, who wrote our cover stories on the '64 Harlem riots...
...little children wrenched steel shutters and grilles from storefronts with crowbars, shattered plate-glass windows, scooped up everything they could carry, and destroyed what they could not. First they went for clothing, TV sets, jewelry, liquor; when that was cleaned out, they picked up food, furniture and drugs. Said Frank Ross, a black police officer in Bedford-Stuyvesant: "It's like a fever struck them. They were out there with trucks, vans, trailers, everything that could roll...
...thought by many associates to be anxious to settle the future control of her company while she is still in active command. With some 20% of Beech's stock held by Olive Ann, her two daughters (who have no role in management) and a nephew, Frank Hedrick, 67, Beech's president since 1968. the company is very much a family affair. But after Olive Ann's death or retirement, Beech could conceivably fall victim to an unfriendly takeover bid like that experienced by one of its major competitors, Piper Aircraft, at the hands of Chris-Craft Corp...
...aptly pointed out in his stinging dissent, the court's ruling will have far greater impact on non-white communities than on white ones. Nearly one-third of the women who received Medicaid funds for abortions in the past were minority group members, a disproportionately high share. Marshall's frank summary of the court's decision is understandably harsh...
...International Brotherhood of Teamsters. And nowhere within that fraternity was rapacity more apparent than in the management-most people would call it mismanagement-of the union's $1.4 billion Central States, Southeast and Southwest pension fund. Under the guidance of both icy Jimmy Hoffa and shuffling Frank Fitzsimmons, trustees treated the fund as a pot of honey to be ladled liberally to friends and acquaintances. Now, after a two-year investigation by the Department of Labor and a threat by the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the fund's tax-exempt status, Fitzsimmons and his pals have been...