Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...University's position on the state's Fair Employment Practices Act. I spent the summer in the South, working principally for voter registration, but also in other areas of discrimination, then returned to work with the Congress Of Racial Equality in my own town, the "all-American city" of Hartford, where I had the opportunity to compare the more subtle forms of northern discrimination with the institutionalized segregation of the South...
Attorney General Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice last week moved against the U.S. brass industry. In Hartford, Conn., a federal grand jury handed down indictments against eleven major brass producers and seven of their officers for conspiring to fix prices on pipe and tubing sold to the Tennessee Valley Authority and municipal governments...
...enough of the initial subscribers stayed around. Campbell's $1,000,000 ran out quickly, and the 125,000 charter subscribers dwindled to 7,000. Last week, after just four issues, USA*1 gave up the ghost. It merged with another publishing experiment: A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford's Show Magazine...
Merger was a polite term for the end of USA* 1 and an attempt by Show to put on a little fat. Show has steadily nibbled at Hartford's fortune since its first issue last September, shelled out $250,000 last January to gobble up Hugh (Playboy) Hefner's ill-conceived and short-lived Show Business Illustrated. USA*1 will cost Hartford next to nothing. USA*1 stockholders will be given an equity in the new corporation. Show's hope is to add a large part of USA* 1's circulation...
...theater, museum and concert hall; Oklahoma City, a combined arts and science museum; Baltimore and St. Petersburg, Fla., new concert halls as part of their civic centers; Salt Lake City, Asheville, N.C., and Ypsilanti, Mich., theaters at a total cost of $2,150,000; Laramie, Wyo., Hartford, Conn., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., Odessa, Texas, Gadsden, Ala., and Tenafly, N.J., have art centers and cultural projects planned or promised...