Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...holding a rally at Soldier Field. It also refused to give the yippies permission to camp in Lincoln Park, and told demonstrators that they could march nowhere near the amphitheatre itself. Appeals of the bans were rejected by Federal District Judge William Lynch-Mayor Daley's former law partner...
...Chairman Gustave L. Levy of the N.Y.S.E. board of governors was even blunter. Justice's proposal, he said, would convert the Big Board into a mere "quotation bureau with limited activity." The reason is that many large firms, including Goldman, Sachs & Co., of which Levy is a senior partner, would be likely to quit the exchange altogether...
...support from the rest of the world. Britain naturally supported its Commonwealth partner. The rest of Europe and even Soviet Russia (seeing a chance to gain a new foothold in Africa by backing the likely winner) were soon providing Nigerian military commanders with every kind of weapon they wanted. Automatic rifles and endless rounds of ammunition, heavy artillery, mortars, rockets, grenade launchers, antiaircraft guns, Czechoslovak Delfin jets, Russian MIGs and Ilyushin 11-28 bombers?Nigeria ordered and got them all. The result was an unhappy precedent for Africa: the Nigerian conflict became the first African bush war fought with modern...
...served in the Army in Europe, ending up as a company commander in the 10th Armored Division. After the war, he turned to the law, earning his degree at night from the University of Baltimore in 1947. Shortly after, on the urging of a senior partner in his law firm, he changed his party affiliation from Democratic to Republican...
Much may depend, of course, on Humphrey's choice of a running mate. In order to win in November, he will need the widest possible support in the cities and among the Kennedy-McCarthy factions. Three of the Vice President's favorites for a partner on the ticket are Oklahoma's Senator Fred Harris, Maine's Senator Edmund Muskie, and San Francisco's Mayor Joseph Alioto, a Catholic liberal of whom Humphrey thinks highly. A better known possibility would be Sargent Shriver, who might reconcile some of the Kennedy partisans...