Word: hues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...corruption in high places. His story is circumstantial, but his theme is universal: turn the rascals out! A scandal breaks. The subsidiaries of a construction trust are accused of rigging bids on government contracts. Secret kickbacks are suspected; elected officials may be involved. The press takes up the hue and cry, and the police grill two officials of the companies interested. They refuse to talk. Released, one of them commits suicide, and the other disappears and is presumed dead. But he is dangerously alive: a bomb in the hands of an almost insanely angry young man (Toshiro Mifune...
...U.S.C., biggest private university in the West, is striving to change its Rose Bowl hue in favor of academic touchdowns. Un der way is a 25-year master plan priced at $106 million. The Ford money will help raise a new science building (particularly for physics), hire more faculty to help boost graduate-student enrollment. Said President Norman H. Top ping: "It will enable us to move forward much faster than we expected...
Board-Room Battlefield. By installing himself as chairman of the executive committee, and his protégé Karr as president, Landa thought he had assured himself of control of Fairbanks Whitney. But before long, the new board of directors began raising a hue and cry about mismanagement. Last May, after a 1961 loss of $83,600 on sales of $141 million, Landa resigned as an officer of the company. Subsequently, a score of lesser Fairbanks executives scurried off, and those who remained behind were so absorbed in boardroom battles that no one was left to mind the store...
...beam from the Enquirer's masthead. The Enquirer endorsed Ohio Republican William O'Neill for Governor in 1958, the Post & Times-Star supported Democrat Mike Di Salle. > To an even greater degree than the Cincinnati Post, the Cleveland Press picks local candidates without regard to their political hue. After supporting Di Salle in 1958, this year, disenchanted with his performance, it came out for Republican James R. Rhodes. One of the chain's most profitable papers, the Press is thoroughly embedded in the community, thanks to the direction of peppy, longtime (34 years) Editor Louis B. Seltzer...
...Columnist Lippmann will also write 26 columns a year for Newsweek, which the Post bought in 1961. Newsweek's political coloration is best described as neutral grey. Columnist Lippmann will also continue to appear in the Herald Tribune-as well as 200-odd other papers of every political hue...