Word: j
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Signal stock, the Los Angeles oil company agreed to acquire Milwaukee's Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co., one of the nation's leading manufacturers of electrical, construction and farm machinery. Allis-Chalmers has been the subject of takeover rumors-and heavy trading of its stock-ever since James J. Ling, the acquisitive chairman of Dallas' Ling-TemcoVought, made a pair of tender offers that Allis-Chalmers' board turned down cold last summer...
Married. Anthony J. Hope, 27, Bob's son, a business director at 20th Century-Fox Television; and Judith Richards, 26, a classmate of Tony's at Harvard Law; in Defiance, Ohio...
Morris' new biography, written with sympathetic irony, draws on J. W. Mackail's exhaustive work of 1899 and adds psychological material once thought improper. Morris shines through the pages as a prodigious Victorian, one of a long line of self-confident zealots whose faith and energies gave them a stature that the modern mini-man can only wonder at. A dozen specialist scholars -in politics, poetry, architecture, painting, interior design, cabinetry, fabrics-would be needed to catalogue his achievements. The aim of his life was to restore craftsmanship and beauty to a deprived industrial working class...
...high official in the Massachusetts Democratic Party said last night that Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien probably would not enter the April 30 Masachusetts Primary as a stand-in for President Johnson against Senator Eugene J. McCarthy (D-Minn...
When American officials heard this, however, they chose to sit on the proposal. Then, on November 2, in an attempt to regain the initiative, Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg told Congress that the United States would vote for an invitation to the Vietcong to appear before a meeting of the Security Council. Goldberg's speech was billed as yet another major U.S. diplomatic concession to the enemy. It sought to prove once again that the United States is truly anxious to reach a peace settlement, and that its concerted efforts have failed only because of the intransigence of the North Vietnamese...