Word: gatherings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, maintains his principal office in London, owns a penthouse in Athens and a home in Rye, N.Y., and has permanent suites at Claridge's in London and the Lausanne Palace. Most of the shipowners return to their home islands for summer vacations. When all the clans gather on Inoussai (pop. 1,500), the net worth of the people jumps to about $4 billion. The other Greeks are perfectly happy to let "Ari" Onassis and Stavros Niarchos capture the headlines. As far as they are concerned, what really counts is not what the outside world thinks of them...
...Senate Select Committee on Small Business recently postponed scheduled hearings on the SBA, concluding that the agency has so many problems that a "60-day reprieve" would be necessary for it to "gather itself together." The House Small Business Committee went ahead with its own hearings and heard blacks and whites criticize inaction, lack of imagination and the kind of slipshod procedures that resulted in the use of funds to guarantee a $135,000 bank loan to Lou Brock, the St. Louis Cardinals star whose salary is $85,000. "Black capitalism has not failed, because it was never given...
...crowds began to gather at Entebbe airport half a day before the Pope was due: women in elegant, bright' ly patterned neck-to-ankle dresses, men toting six-foot cowhide horns, calypso singers and tribal dancers. Shouts went up when the East African Airways VC-10 appeared, flanked by four Fouga jet trainers: "There he is! He's coming, that good man." The Kampala police band, its drummers in leopardskin overalls, played the Uganda national anthem as President Milton Obote greeted the Pontiff. Heads of four other African states stood by in a LandRover: Tanzania's Julius...
...across the country, radical groups are working intensively on plans for a massive descent on Chicago in mid-October. They claim that as many as 30,000 students will gather there to protest the war and demonstrate their support for the Black Panthers and for the "Conspiracy 8," who are charged with conspiring to incite riots at the Chicago Democratic convention last year. For sheer propaganda, however, nothing the activists are planning or doing is likely to equal the summer project of ex-S.D.S. Organizer Rennie Davis and Detroit's Linda Evans, an S.D.S. leader. They are presently...
Open the Door. This week Japanese leaders will move toward a confrontation on one of their major problems-trade relations with the U.S. Members of the Japanese and U.S. Cabinets will gather in Tokyo for one of their periodic meetings. The U.S. will be represented by the State Department's William Rogers, Commerce's Maurice Stans and Agriculture's Clifford Hardin, as well as Paul McCracken, the President's chief economic adviser. They will urge their Japanese counterparts to start removing import quotas on 120 products, and move faster in approving requests from U.S. companies that...