Word: outfit
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Aura of Hysteria. Winner in a covert internal coup that ousted longtime CORE Leader James Farmer last winter, McKissick, 44, has lately steered his civil rights outfit, a leader in the movement in the '60s, away from gradual integration toward aggressive Desegregation Now. Almost all white members and most Negro moderates have either resigned or been nudged out of national policymaking positions. Opposition to the war in Viet Nam has reached a hysteria, and CORE leaders have come close to damning any cooperation with whites-as McKissick did during his meeting with the two Baltimore officials...
Whoever thought the head man of so secretive an outfit would stand up and accept an award for running an airline under "extremely sensitive political conditions"? Yet there was George Doole Jr., Air America's managing director, smiling like a Rotarian and receiving a citation for the line's achievements from Washington's Aero Club at a luncheon in the capital last week. After the luncheon, Doole, a former Pan American Airways pilot, shrugged off newsmen's questions about his company's activities. "One wouldn't know," he said, if any particular contract...
...Mekong Delta, South Vietnamese Rangers on Operation Dan Chi (People's Determination) used American helicopters to trap another Viet Cong battalion. The Reds were part of the crack Soctrang Mobile Force, an outfit whose mobility failed it last week. Caught in a vise by three Ranger battalions, the Communists made their stand in a mangrove swamp near the village of Vinh Chau and suffered 262 dead...
...This publicity about Gary came at a crucial time-on the eve of the primaries. As soon as copies of TIME were available at the newsstands, "the Gary outfit" bought them up in entire lots and shipments from the local retail outlets. Consequently, very few copies reached the general public-that is, the local voter...
...railroads. The Penn Central link-up will be the largest corporate merger ever in U.S. business, forming the nation's biggest new company since U.S. Steel in 1901. Going into business on June 1 will be the Pennsylvania New York Central Transportation Co., the greatest private transportation outfit in the world, with assets of $6 billion and annual revenues of $1.6 billion. On 19,356 miles of road, it will haul 12% of the nation's freight and serve 2,816 communities from Montreal to Cairo, Ill., and from Chesapeake Bay to uppermost Michigan. The deal between...