Word: pfister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rotarian's Return. No sooner had Ling and several associates installed themselves in a suite at the downtown Pfister Hotel than Ling began his performance. Instead of the Big Man from Big D, Jim Ling played the visiting Rotarian. In a telegram to Allis-Chalmers' board, he offered to pay roughly $45 a share for 51% of the company's common stock-then trading at about $35 -if the board would give its O.K. Such politeness hardly suggested a Texas raider, and Ling himself soon ventured out to win the heart and mind of Milwaukee. He phoned...
...ACLU suit, however, is based on a Supreme Court decision of April, 1965, (Dombrowski, vs. Pfister) in which the Court ruled that Louisiana anti-subversive laws had a "chilling effect" on free speech; thus the two who brought the suit were not even required to undergo prosecution because, the majority opinion asserted, trying them would infringe on their first amendment rights -- regardless of the verdict...
...eyed and worried. As the first returns began to trickle into Milwaukee from Wisconsin's countryside, Candidate Hubert Humphrey began to brighten up. The magic numbers were going all his way. By 9 p.m. Humphrey held a 6,500-vote lead over his rival Jack Kennedy. In his Pfister Hotel suite, Kennedy slumped in a chair watching television; Brother Bob hovered anxiously over a telephone, jotting down the reports of local legmen. Then, slowly, the numbers began to change, and by 11 p.m. Kennedy was out in front. At that point, only one thing was certain: placid Wisconsin...
...snatched on planes and trains, fatigue was countered with vitamin pills and the sheer momentum of Hubert Humphrey's astonishing vitality. At times the strain showed on Humphrey's face, but energy invariably won the day. After a quick shower and a change in Milwaukee's Pfister Hotel, he was refreshed and ready to go again...