Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first issue contains ingredients that should appeal to both races. One story tells about a Harlem group that is trying to bypass the city and organize a separate school district that will report directly to the state. Literary Critic Alfred Kazin contributes a whimsical appreciation of the Upper West Side: "Nowhere else I have ever lived is there such excess of money to comfort, of comfort to taste, of taste to safety." Above all, the Tribune plans to be a paper of investigation. For the first issue, a team of reporters did some comparison shopping and concluded that Harlem residents...
...been in Chicago long enough to satisfy the residence requirement. Nevertheless, the 1968 elections apparently fell short of previous years when it came to dilly-Daleying. "This was the cleanest election we've had in Chicago in at least 20 years," said Charles Barr, head of a group of 5,000 Republicans who policed the polls. In response, Mayor Daley suggested-not without cause-that reporters should investigate why, in the era of the voting machine, officials in some Republican-controlled precincts in Illinois still insist on using paper ballots...
Under a deal devised with the help of Kidder, Peabody & Co., a group of blue-chip investors has agreed to give Lytton Financial a $25.5 million transfusion. The holding company will sell $8,000,000 worth of common stock to pay off a crippling burden of debt. To rebuild its reserves, the company's largest subsidiary, Los Angeles-based Lytton
...also will sell the group of investors $17.5 million in debentures that are convertible into the common stock of Lytton Financial...
Jerry Kramer slaves for the Green Bay Packers-the football equivalent of the Radio City Rockettes-a group that habitually barters personal freedom for perfection. His tamer has been an emotional virtuoso named Vince Lombardi, a cross between the late General Patton and a good Italian mama: a raging, weeping computer who can get his players down on Tuesday, up on Wednesday, buried on Thursday and winning on Sunday, virtually at will...