Word: grouped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Financed by a group of New Orleans businessmen, he set to work. One assistant, Jim Alcock, concentrated on the legalities of the case; a second, Andy ("Moo") Sciambra, handled the field work. After months of investigation, Garrison finally announced that he had "solved the assassination." Lee Harvey Oswald, he said, was only a decoy and a patsy. "The key to the whole case is through the looking glass. Black is white; white is black." A right-wing conspiracy involving some 20 anti-Castroites, ex-CIA agents and members of the Minutemen had killed Jack Kennedy in Dallas' Dealey Plaza...
...study also proposes that the Federal Reserve discount rate be made more flexible to keep in line with other money-market rates. The rate could be changed as often as once a week, said Federal Reserve Board Governor George W. Mitchell, who headed the board's study group of ten. In the recent past, discount-rate changes were watched chiefly by foreign central bankers for evidence of U.S. resolve to tackle its balance of payments deficit. In the past nine months the rate has been upped three times, from 4% to 51%. This was interpreted abroad as an encouraging...
...Washed Shores. Back in 1841, Cook's started out as a temperance evangelist's venture into group travel. An ex-printer named Thomas Cook, busy saving souls on the gin-washed shores of the British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance convention. The group traveled in open tube cars from Leicester to Loughborough and back for one shilling per head. Soon Cook began organizing group trips for a profit, and his company, Thomas Cook, Excursionist Agent, was firmly launched during Queen Victoria's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. To this pioneering...
Among other Harvard teachers belonging to the group are Oscar Handlin, Charles Warren Professor of American History; Seymour Martin Lipset, Professor of Sociology; James Q. Wilson, Professor of Government; and James Vorenberg, Professor...
...group of citizens, including one Harvard professor, has written a letter to 2000 members of the local draft boards in the Boston area, asking the members to resign their positions on the boards...