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...Wallace for the votes of people who, at very best, want to put the brakes on our progress toward full opportunity." The frenetic efforts by all the candidates to get on the right side of the issue prompted San Francisco's Democratic Mayor Joseph Alioto to comment: "None of the candidates is running for President. They're all running for sheriff...
...ambassador to Finland, was elected to membership at the Indian Spring Country Club near Washington. Soon after she was invited to become a member of her club's "B" tennis team, the Chevy Chase Club, the Columbia Country Club and the Washington Golf and Country Club decided that none of them could any longer put together a "B" team for interclub matches. Though the clubs deny it, the word around Washington is that some of their members do not relish the possibility of having to play on the same court with Mrs. Rowan, who happens to be a Negro...
Zone 13 is the police designation for a jagged area of St. Petersburg, Fla., that has been gerrymandered to include most of the city's Negro districts. No white cop had ever been assigned to Zone 13, and none of the Negroes covering that beat ever patrolled the city's white sections. Charging that the police department was assigning them by race, twelve of St. Petersburg's 14 Negro officers sued the city two years ago under the equal-protection clause of the 14th Amendment...
Merrill Lynch expressed "surprise" at the SEC action. "We are convinced that none of our people acted wrongfully, and we will defend our position vigorously," said a spokesman. For its own sake, the firm can afford to do no less. Merrill Lynch owes both its eminence and fortune to its success in wooing the small investor. To back the well-justified boast that it brought Wall Street to Main Street, the company points to its 1,400,000 individual customers, nearly one-third more than any other stockbroker has. Their trading, along with that of 3,000 institutional customers, last...
...permanent revocation of its license to do business. The institutions would be subject to milder punishment. They could, for example, be barred from operating as broker-dealers, or lose their registration as investment advisers. But, except for Dreyfus Corp., which operates the well-known Dreyfus & Co. brokerage firm, almost none of them engage in such activities. In any case, the SEC's verdict can be appealed all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Considering the magnitude of the issues at stake, such an outcome seems likely...