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...Riot Act. Cincinnati's four-day outburst was the longest of the week, and in many ways the most ominous. Triggered by the arrest of a Negro demonstrator who was protesting a death sentence imposed upon his cousin, Posteal Laskey,* the riots raged not through a Negro slum, but in spacious, residential neighborhoods, where many of the city's 110,000 Negroes were moved when Cincinnati razed its ghetto as part of a $100 million urban-renewal program. After three days, during which more than 100 stores and businesses were firebombed, Mayor Walton Bachrach called in the National...
...parlor meetings. Haft did not like the unbusinesslike approach. Says he: "The time has come to stop singing the Hatikvah [Israel's anthem] to raise a dollar." Instead Haft settled on mutuals, hoped that $10 million might be raised. He took his idea to Boston Movie Exhibitor Lawrence Laskey, who had large holdings in Bonds of Israel and was equally tired of parlor meetings. Impressed, Laskey bypassed Jewish-controlled investment houses to avoid any further tinge of sentiment, persuaded Manhattan's Paine, Webber, Jackson & Curtis to underwrite the plan. Visiting Israel, he also persuaded Finance Minister Levi Eshkol...
...naivete of the speakers tonight, except for Father Sexton, they don't seem to understand the nature of this sordid subject. Why don't they all come to Town Hall at 2 p.m. Sunday afternoon, where they can hear it discussed by Dr. Bella Dodd, Alfred Kohlberg, Victor Laskey, and J. B. Matthews...
...three of the department's tutorial staff are Chairman John T. Edsall, professor of Biological Chemistry and nationally known authority on proteins; Dr. Ronald M. Ferry, Master of Winthrop House, and F. H. Laskey Taylor, who has done extensive work on chemical isotopes and blood phenomena...
...shall probably devote a page or two in the printed program to special points of interest, such as art exhibits, and should like to consider the possibility of reproducing the map, perhaps quoting some of the descriptive comments. May we have your permission to do so? HAROLD H. LASKEY...