Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governor's office. When constitutional lawyers told Volpe what he had done, he called the whole business "quite ridiculous." Then lawyers pointed out that in 1954 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court advised Governor Christian Herter against accepting an appointment to a similar federal commission lest he jeopardize his office. Late last week, Democratic State Committee chairman Lester S. Hyman attacked Volpe's "flippancy" about the matter. Volpe became considerably unnerved...
...cities of China have been traditionally governed by boards of elders, mainly local merchants. Emperors Genghis and Kublai Khan, and those of the late Manchu dynasty, accepted the system and financed their activities by levying tribute on the cities according to size...
...patronage and various forms of skulduggery. But at the same time, he also expects (or wants) them to be above the more blatant forms of corruption. That is why Adam Clayton Powell's flamboyant peccadilloes, Senator Thomas Dodd's shifty manipulations of "campaign funds" and the late Senator Robert Kerr's wheeling and dealing with Bobby Baker have agitated two congressional committees and large sections of public opinion about the ethics of Capitol Hill. The central question is posed by Powell's crass claim that "everybody else is doing...
...unmotivated students, black or white, the best that a college can expect to do is "improve their basic skills a little," give them an idea of what middle-class life is like and provide them with the diploma that could help them enter that life. College comes too late, they contend, to make "the life of the mind" either "attractive or accessible to many students who have been intellectually starved for their first 17 years...
...late November, the Douglas board of directors knew that only a merger would save the firm. At Douglas' request, Stanley Osborne, a partner in the Wall Street investment banking house of Lazard Frères, began shopping for bids. Well-heeled McDonnell Co. offered the most cash?an immediate $69 million for authorized but unissued Douglas stock. It had already snapped up 300,000 shares of Douglas stock at depressed prices, a move that made it Douglas' largest stockholder...