Word: manhattans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Katie were a man, I would marry her and be faithful to her the rest of my life." So vows Rachel Porter, 21, who is slightly plump, wears her blonde hair in a pert pixy cut, and works as a secretary in a Manhattan publishing firm. Rachel has been seeing Katie Burns, a tall, strikingly handsome private secretary in a large corporation, for three years now, and sharing an apartment with her for three months. Yet Rachel's feelings are mixed. "I don't really say to this day that I am a lesbian," she says...
...psychoanalyst who has seen scores of homosexuals in therapy and is associate clinical professor of psychiatry at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in The Bronx; the Rev. Robert Weeks, an Episcopal priest who has arranged for the meetings of a homosexual discussion group to take place at his Manhattan church; Dick Leitsch, a homosexual who is executive director of the Mattachine Society of New York; and Franklin Kameny, an astronomer and homosexual who is founder-president of the Mattachine Society of Washington...
...attack is mounted by two Yale graduates, Editor John N. Cole. 46, and Publisher Peter W. Cox, 32, who raised $100,000 to pay for offset printing, two full-time reporters and a rented building in the hamlet of Topsham. Cole quit an incipient gray-flannel career in Manhattan to become a commercial fisherman, later edited several Maine newspapers. Cox is the son of Oscar Cox, a noted international lawyer. By no means opposed to all industry, they have warmly praised a few lumber and paper companies for enlightened use of Maine land. What they do oppose is destruction...
Executives usually refuse to comment publicly when their companies are in court, but Harold Geneen, the combative chairman and president of ITT, spoke up only two days after the court decision. In a speech in Manhattan, he called Mitchell's statistics "carefully selected but unfortunately misleading." He pointed out that the asset concentration among the top 140 companies in 1963 was the same as it had been in 1932. Geneen also contended that the real antitrust issue is the specific amount of concentration of power within an industry and that the conglomerate approach of buying into many industries does...
...Jeep deal was typical of American's growth-minded aggressiveness since Chairman Chapin and President William V. Luneburg took over in 1967. At that time, AMC's future seemed so shaky that its creditors, a consortium of 24 banks headed by Chase Manhattan, examined the books every ten days. The new chiefs sold AMC's finance subsidiary and Kelvinator Appliance to pay some of the debts, trimmed costs by $20 million annually to cut the breakeven point from 343,000 to 250,000 cars a year, and last year turned a profit...