Word: lowe
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HOUSING. The President only last month asked Congress in his urban message for 6,000,000 units for low-and moderate-income families within ten years, a program that Congress is not likely to pass without major surgery. But the commission nonetheless recommended that the building time be speeded up. Six million units should be built in five years, 600,000 of them in the next year...
...Coast Guard radio station at Pungo, Va., picked up a nervous call. Speaking in broken English, the caller said that he was aboard the 26 de Julio, a small (943 tons) Cuban cargo vessel that normally hauls freight and cattle between Havana and Montreal. Would the Coast Guard al low the ship to put in to port at Norfolk "to discharge people who are seek ing political asylum...
...park land that some residents of nearby Harlem wish to protect. Thirteen protesters were arrested. The confrontation was the latest in a long series of emotional disputes involving Columbia and Morningside Heights, a neighborhood whose residents are a mixture of Negroes, Puerto Ricans and white intellectuals attracted by low rents, the university and such varied institutions as Union Theological Seminary and the Juilliard School of Music. In an effort to enlarge its cramped 28.5-acre campus, Columbia since 1963 has acquired nearly $30 million worth of property on the Heights, including 73 low-rent apartment buildings and houses and nearly...
When the technique of tape recording was developed a quarter-century ago, it unreeled a whole new way of marketing recorded music. The best tapes had all the high fidelity of phonograph disks but none of their low resistance to wear and tear. The trouble was that they were cumbersome: wound on one reel, they had to be threaded through the playback machine onto another reel, then rewound. In the process, the hapless user could find himself struggling like Laocoon within coils of tape. Before taped music could begin to have the mass appeal of disks, something was needed...
With a Wink. Among soft-drink companies, Canada Dry has been a notable laggard in adopting such strategy. While the industry more than doubled its sales volume in a decade, in great part by introducing new beverages-notably low-calorie drinks-which persuade new groups of customers to imbibe, Canada Dry added only one new product: Wink. Before Mahoney took charge 15 months ago, profits had skidded from $5,400,000 in fiscal...