Word: majorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...combining the recommendations of several House committees must be considered a major problem in itself, since the impetus for reform has come from several groups holding very different views of education...
...legal counsel from 1936 until 1948, when his far-left politics finally cost him his job and career; of cancer; in Mt. Vernon, N.Y. Pressman never made any bones about his Communist leanings, often supporting the Moscow line. Yet as a union lawyer he was tops; he played a major role in negotiating the original C.I.O. contracts with such industrial giants as U.S. Steel and General Motors, and ably fought labor cases before the Supreme Court...
...major supplier to the auto industry, Collins L. Carter, chairman of Hayes-Albion Corp., which makes castings and parts, has lowered his prediction of output from 8,700,000 vehicles to an even 8,000,000 for the 1970-model years. The auto companies themselves are officially holding to their forecasts, which are generally in line with G.M. President Edward Cole's estimate of 8,500,000 domestic cars. To reach that sales goal, automakers are counting on buyers returning to the showrooms next spring...
Escaping the Onus. Actually, the sale of Immobiliare reflected the Pope's decision that church control of major Italian companies had become a liability. The Vatican owns some $200 million worth of stock in Italian firms. The church until recently either controlled or owned a substantial part of at least a dozen important enterprises, including cement-making Italcementi, paper-manufacturing Cartiere Burgo, pasta-making Molini Biondi and Vianini, a major engineering firm. The investments provide a handsome income to help defray the huge cost of running the papal establishment. But social unrest is growing in Italy. Anxious to align...
Rearranging the Portfolio. Moneymen expect that it will take the Vatican some time to shed all of its unwanted stock holdings. The church has retained a small number of Immobiliare shares, but recently sold its controlling interest in Italiana Condotte Acqua, a major construction firm, to a leading Italian holding company, Bastogi...