Word: joined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Without much hope left, the Council ordered the march on the State House. It requested that all agencies of the City--police, fire, school bands, and even the Harvard University Band--join in the march. All costs of the demonstration will be paid for by the City. It is estimated that the demonstration will cost about $3000. The Council also ordered that the day of the demonstration be proclaimed "Halt the Highway/Anti-Inner Belt...
...international-investment fund for the Pacific is being formed by N. M. Rothschild & Sons, the London branch of the 200-year-old banking family. As partners, the Rothschilds will have the biggest brokerage houses in the U.S. and Japan, Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities Co. Other partners may join the syndicate. The fund will begin operation early in 1969, if, as expected, the government approves. It will be run by the Rothschilds in the pattern of other syndicates that they have formed in Europe. They will buy stock in promising companies in Australia and other Pacific countries but chiefly...
...Geneva. In May, the firm assembled a syndicate that lent $15 million to Hungary, the first direct credit by Western lenders to an East bloc country. Three months ago, its U.S. affiliate bought the Georg Jensen chain of New York-area specialty shops. And next week the Rothschilds will join as a junior partner with the U.S.'s Manufacturers Hanover Trust in opening a new merchant bank in London, thus completing a typical round-the-world circle...
...brief recess for some short-story writing and freelance journalism, rose steadily to the coveted rank of career ambassador. He held three ambassadorships (Laos, Syria, Morocco) in the Eisenhower Administration, then became deputy to Adlai Stevenson and Arthur Goldberg at the United Nations. In 1966, he retired to join the Council on Foreign Relations. In a 1964 book, The Age of Triumph and Frustration: Modern Dialogues, one of Yost's imaginary speakers sums up a diplomat's view of Realpolitik: "The hopes of international peace depend upon a firm disregard of the rights and wrongs of disputes...
...still find Hoffmann's hands-off attitude obscene, because I and my comrades would be forced to kill and be killed while Mr. Hoffmann washed his hands of the affair. Only a member of the elite can afford to take that attitude. Many of us don't care to join that sort of elite while our (largely working class) brothers are shipped to Vietnam...