Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...protested Ev with horror, he would not dare ask his wife about her dabblings in the stock market. "She would say to me, 'It is not the Senate's business,' " he declared. "We have lived 40 happy years together. It just proves that love and harmony and sweetness of life still prevail in the Dirksen family. But she is her own boss." The public-disclosure amendment did have sizable support - notably from Connecticut's Tom Dodd, whose transgressions in part prompted demand for the code. Yet the amendment failed...
...Alioto journeyed to Washington and New York-to squeeze 3,000 new maintenance jobs out of San Francisco-serving airlines, create job opportunities in the post office, fire department, trade unions and in the Bay Area Rapid Transit's 75-mile construction project, which includes a tunnel under Market Street. Manhattan Banker David Rockefeller bent to Alioto's urging that a $250 million Embarcadero construction project -known locally as "Rockefeller Center West"-soon get under way. By careful cajolery, Alioto persuaded Warner Bros, to build a public swimming pool in Hunters Point-the ghetto's first -where...
Every so often, TV ups and breaks a precedent. This season, spurred by the expanding market for specials, a few producers are taking a stab at new subjects. Trouble is, they try so hard to be original that the result is often a case of overdoing the underdone...
...hide their prints rather than risk legal battles and long expenditure of time. Although the AFI's cordial connection with the Library of Congress gives them an invaluable aid in negotiating for copies of rare films, they cannot legally guarantee an amnesty to collectors who admit ownership of black-market prints. Consequently, no uncertain skill is needed in making different deals for each film; the need to create an image which convinces collectors that their prints won't be impounded pulls Kahlenberg toward cloak-and-dagger tactics of secrecy. "I know where three negatives of Scarface are," he will...
...supplied to the Library by the AFI; once the film has been transferred to acetate, the print is returned quietly to the collector. As soon as the print enters the Library of Congress, it becomes federal property and cannot be seized, therefore protecting the owner of the black-market print to some extent, and completely protecting the permanent copy...