Word: ince
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard Square, UFW backers this year fought for the grape-pickers on a scrap of pavement outside the Harvard Provisions, Inc...
...traumatic events of recent years-Watergate, inflation, recession, the energy crisis and the collapse in Viet Nam-have all overshadowed a less dramatic but potentially durable shift in American life. It is in the way in which the U.S. governs itself. Two years ago, Time Inc. devoted part of its 50th anniversary observance to a search for means by which the Congress could recover the constitutional powers it had lost to an expanding and increasingly dominant presidency. At seminars in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles and Washington, members of Congress and academic experts expressed fears for the future...
...victims are self-admitted patsies, whose usual wariness evaporated in dreams of heady 12%-14% interest. "Sure I was a sucker. I thought I could double our money," concedes Philip Profita, 60, a Fort Myers machinist who bought $21,000 worth of promissory notes from now defunct Homestate Investments Inc. Even though a local banker warned him against it, Floyd Campbell, 69, a retired service engineer, invested $35,000 in what he thought was first mortgages in a Continental Investments Inc. development. "The banker said he couldn't afford to pay interest like that," Campbell recalls, "so I said...
Until last week, state officials had taken only one case to court. During the proceedings, Equitable Development Inc. of Miami Beach, which had sold some $8 million worth of notes to 700 investors, agreed not to sell any more without the state's consent. Controller Gerald Lewis is now seeking to have the firm put into receivership. Equitable President Bernard Horowitz says the state is indulging in a "witch hunt" and claims that "all land-development companies work in the same fashion...
Transparently Flimsy. On the basis of the Supreme Court's Gertz v. Welch, Inc. decision of June 1974, a Hartford, Conn., judge ruled that former Publisher Gilbert N. Kelman of the weekly Wallingford (Conn.) Post would have to reveal his sources for an article that he wrote and published in October 1972; it linked a Boston philanthropist and dog-track promoter, Joseph M. Linsey, to underworld elements. District Court Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld reversed his own ruling of two years ago, in which he rejected Linsey's demand, presented in a $5 million libel suit against Kelman...