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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stanford University, several participants advocated registration of all guns-if only, said one, to "see if this reduces crime or death rates." Other preventive measures were linked to the predictability of assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Assassinations: A Warning Five Years Later | 11/29/1968 | See Source »

Brian Dowling, who was named honorable All-American, was the only player from New England mentioned in the poll. Cross Country Goof Final Standings W L T PTS Brown 6 1 0 12 Pennsylvania 5 2 0 10 Yale 4 3 0 8 Cornell 3 4 0 6 Harvard 2 3 2 6 Columbia 2 4 1 5 Dartmouth 2 4 1 5 Princeton...

Author: By James M. Fallows and William R. Galeota, S | Title: Hanratty Named All-American QB; USC's Simpson Awarded Heisman | 11/27/1968 | See Source »

...think the Massachusetts bill (giving the state control of welfare) is a very good one, and we are reaping the whirlwind," said City Manager James L. Sullivan...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Chaos in State's Welfare System Causes Cambridge Payment Delay | 11/26/1968 | See Source »

Charlie Wellman, 53, entered the S&L field after graduating from the University of Southern California law school in 1940. He learned the business at Coast Federal Savings, an aggressive competitor for consumers' savings, and made his mark by helping Glendale Federal S&L grow from a $23 million midget to a $450 million leader in its industry. He quit as president of Glendale Federal in 1962 over policy disputes with the association's founder-chairman, but within hours was hired as president of Los Angeles' First Charter Financial Corp., now the nation's largest publicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Finance: Making a Pedigreed Lion Out of Three Alley Cats | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

Last week the merger prospects vanished as suddenly as they had appeared. In a joint statement that was every bit as unexpected as their September song, McColough and C.I.T. Chairman L. Walter Lundell announced a "mutual agreement" to drop the matter. They offered no reason for the dropout. The two companies did, however, have some explaining to do-if only to their own people. One nonplussed C.I.T. director complained to newsmen that he had been taken by surprise both in September and by last week's announcement. The idea had been broached and the two companies had launched studies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mergers: End of the September Song | 11/22/1968 | See Source »

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