Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is virtually nothing that is absolutely guaranteed not to come before the court. Fortas, for instance, has frequently discussed Viet Nam with the President and is a known backer of Administration policy. Given those circumstances, Professor William Bishin of the University of Southern California argues that "Fortas couldn't possibly give unbiased consideration to the rights of anti-Viet Nam war demonstrators. If the question of the constitutionality of the war should come before the court, Fortas would not be able to rule upon it from an impartial position." Making the same point another way, U.C.L.A. Politics Professor...
Once the world's largest talent agency and more recently Hollywood's leading TV film producer, the Music Corp. of America has long been known in show-business circles as "The Octopus." The sobriquet still stands, even though the company (now called MCA Inc.) stopped handling talent in 1962 under threat of a Justice Department antitrust suit. Besides TV production, MCA has major interests in moviemaking (Universal Pictures), recording (Decca Records) and real estate (Universal City). Last week it agreed to link tentacles with Pittsburgh-based Westinghouse Electric Corp., itself no small fish when it comes to diversification...
...investor, who accounts for about half the shares traded, the stock exchanges have moved to order that more and more corporate information be made available. The New York Stock Exchange's board of governors recently expanded its Timely Disclosure policy to provide that merger negotiations, if they are known to a few, must henceforth be disclosed to the many as well...
...amount of electric power: the dam will be the cornerstone of a vast development scheme designed to transform the wilderness, which is infested with tsetse flies and mosquitoes, into what the Portuguese like to think will become the Ruhr of Africa. Among the area's natural resources are known reserves of nickel, copper and asbestos, plus a twelve-mile-long seam of coal and iron deposits that could produce an annual 1,000,000 tons...
...complete disaster. Havens is an artist of great power and he brought the audience to its feet with "Run, Shaker Life," a spiritual which rocked the tired and irritated thousands. Havens was also to introduce Jerry Merrick, the author of "Follow," a song which he had made known; and Jerry played with rare simplicity and delicacy...