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Though many people outside Illinois viewed Kerner as a progressive, energetic Governor, he was in fact mostly good looks. His main accomplishments were getting the Atomic Energy Commission to build a multimillion-dollar atom smasher in western Du Page County and appointing a board to map long-range goals for education in Illinois He nevertheless gained such a reputation that Lyndon Johnson appointed him to head a presidential commission on civil disorders. Among the character witnesses at his trial was retired General William Westmoreland, who described him as a man of "impeccable character...
...pushed up the cost of food, and employees, as evidenced by the current partial restaurant workers' strike in New York, began to demand a decent wage. As some of Restaurant Associates' name restaurants started to lose money, they looked to Boston to boost their sagging fortunes. They built a multimillion dollar restaurant using Mama Leone's good name while conducing a massive advertising campaign that included the trunks of many Boston-area cabs...
...home in the Navy now that it is doing much of the fighting. Acts of sabotage have surfaced in recent months, several of which were apparently perpetrated not by blacks but by antiwar whites. The Navy is holding a white seaman as the suspected arsonist who set a multimillion-dollar fire aboard the aircraft carrier Forrestal at Norfolk. The carrier Ranger was recently laid up in drydock for almost four months because metal parts had been thrown into its delicate gears. The Navy is conducting court-martial proceedings against a white sailor for the sabotage. And the skipper...
Garbage collection is hardly an enterprise that conjures up images of manicured executives, complex mergers and multimillion-dollar revenues. Yet it is one of the fastest-growing industries in the U.S. One reason for the rise is simply more garbage?the result of an expanding and increasingly affluent population. Further, as environmental concerns multiply and sanitation laws become tougher, there is greater demand for companies that offer modern processing, disposal and recycling techniques...
...Hughes Airwest airlines, both hard hit in the recession. Hughes may also need a reserve against the pressure of several pending lawsuits, especially a $145 million antitrust judgment awarded against him in favor of TWA, now on appeal to the Supreme Court. In addition, Hughes is involved in multimillion-dollar damage suits brought by Dietrich and former Aide Robert Maheu. Maheu found himself "absolutely flabbergasted" by the Toolco sale, recalling that "selling Hughes Tool was the one thing Hughes said he would never...