Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...interview yesterday, Benjamin A. Barnes '68, president of PBH, said the funds would be used to coordinate the activities of six talent search programs already in operation: Cambridge Advancement Tutorial, the Cambridge Friends School, Challenge, the Jefferson Park Program, Opportunities in Area 7 and the Roosevelt Towers Program...
...refused to club them into martyrdom, the dissenters finally began to dissent among themselves. Even the presence of Lyndon Johnson at St. Patrick's Cathedral for Cardinal Spellman's funeral failed to unite them: protesters halfheartedly staked out the midtown cathedral, but soon dispersed. At Battery Park, moderates and militants clashed in a shoving match during a violent argument over whether to march on city hall...
...Treasury Minister Kurt Schmiicker called that decision "the most striking error made by a company's management in the past few years." Büssing now contributes more than half of Salzgitter's losses; every fourth truck from Büssing goes without a buyer, and the park of unsold trucks stands...
...Leader Everett Dirksen, pleading for a $400,000 appropriation to start a dam at Decatur Ill. Dirksen got what he wanted, as did the others from both parties who approved the $4.6 billion public-works bill for fiscal 1968. Among its many nonessentials is the Delaware River-Tocks Island park; projected costs for it have grown from $90 million to $198 million. Well over $1 billion in similar public works could be postponed...
...another new hotel on Park Place for Howard Hughes, 61, the world's most indefatigable Monopoly player. Without emerging from his $250-a-day cave on the ninth floor of Las Vegas' Desert Inn, the phantom billionaire has concluded negotiations to take over the 650-room Frontier Hotel for a total of $9,000,000. Hughes's holdings in and around Las Vegas are now worth over $100 million, include the Desert Inn, Sands Hotel, Alamo Airways, 30,000 acres of land and the city airport...