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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flame-red cardigan sweater, scuffed brown shoes (one with a tongue missing) and a floppy white yachtsman's hat (a 58th-birthday present from his wife ten days earlier), he carted three bags of soiled linen to the laundry, then, pausing occasionally to consult a neat shopping list, picked up gold-covered paper matchbooks, a dustpan, a broom, clothes hooks, cleanser and a package of frozen pureed spinach...
...campaign could have demanded such conciliatory measures, then taken credit for them when they came. But it did not, scorning Bayard Rustin's earlier list of reasonable, attainable goals. Instead, the Southern Christian Leadership Council's inner circle running the campaign demanded drastic change in America's economic system, including blanket income guarantees to the poor. No such metamorphosis in the welfare system could occur without long, acrimonious debate. To the end, S.C.L.C. leaders refused to demand anything the Government could give under present circumstances. Instead, they snapped at any outstretched Administration hand. By week...
When the students finally decided to speak out, it was university reform they wanted to discuss, but France sent its police, not its thinkers, to deal with them. The student catalogue of complaints is larger and more depressing than any list of grievances that U.S. students can compile. The Paris student seeking an advanced degree, such as the doctoral d'état (comparable to the American Ph.D.), faces six years of relentless scholastic competition as he fights his way, first to the diplome universitaire d'études littéraires (roughly equivalent to a B.A.), then through...
...M.I.T. and Johns Hopkins, the only two academic entries on an otherwise corporation list, are among the top 100 because both institutions are involved in expensive applied research in such fields as Over-the-horizon radar, electromagnetic applications and military uses for the laser beam. M.I.T.'s contracts last year totaled $94.9 million, while Hopkins' amounted to $71.1 million...
...likely to inherit his single-handed control of the company, and more people are now likely to be making more decisions. Heading the list are Ahmanson's two nephews, William, 41, and Robert Ahmanson, 39, longtime aides who will have a strong say in running the trust. Others are Robert De Kriuf, 49, president of Ahmanson's holding company since 1956, and Home's president, Richard H. Deihl, 39, whom Ahmanson spotted as a comer soon after he joined the association as a loan agent...