Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outdo each other in size of fleet and fortune, and are now engaged in a fierce competition to win a Greek government contract to build a huge shipping and industrial complex. Though they get most of the publicity, they are only the two most conspicuous men in a large group of Greek shipping magnates, most of whom are known in nautical circles as the "other Greeks." While the Golden Greeks ardently seek publicity, the other Greeks shun it. Collectively, they have a far greater impact on world business than Onassis or Niarchos, and individually some have become about as wealthy...
...Greek shipowners today possess the world's largest merchant fleet -3,065 ships totaling almost 25 million tons. As a group, they are the biggest spenders in the world's shipyards. More than 200 vessels, including 43 supertankers, are on order or being built for Greek owners. The Greeks set up shop wherever they can do business, in London, Manhattan, Lausanne or Beirut. They fly the most convenient flag -Liberian, Panamanian, Cypriot-but they remain Greek wherever they go. Their enterprise has been a major force in lifting the postwar economies of shipbuilding nations. In British shipyards alone...
...Respect. The Ripon Society, a group of Republican liberals, blames the Administration's "floundering" largely on SBA Administrator Hilary J. Sandoval Jr., an El Paso businessman appointed by Nixon to replace Democrat Howard Samuels, a far more aggressive leader. The society called for Sandoval's dismissal because "he no longer commands the respect of the black and white communities with whom he has to deal." SBA officials around the nation complain that they get no guidance from Washington. Walt McMurtry, executive director of Detroit's Inner-City Black Industrial Forum, voices a common complaint: "Sandoval just does...
...pamphlet also contains the projected plans for Working Group Three, a sub-group of the Committee charged with recommending changes in the governance of the University...
...spokesman for Harvard--Charles P. Whitlock, assistant to the President for Governmental Relations--would only say that "In the early discussions [of the stadium concerts], someone in the Riverside group suggested and brought into the discussions a man named George Papadoupolos. In the process of negotiation the discussions turned toward Boston 'Summerthing' as producer for all five stadium concerts...