Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them and four of their children was $33.86. Skinflint? Not at all. The Harts were simply learning what it is like to be a family receiving an Aid to Families with Dependent Children allowance (about 25? per person per meal). Mrs. Hart discovered that the family fare ran heavily to beans, cheap vegetables and bread, with an occasional tough old rooster for the stew pot. "I can see how people would just take the entire amount," said she, "and buy a bottle and blot the whole thing...
...public eye when his freewheeling tactics as a defense attorney in the 1949 trial of eleven Communists earned him a four-month jail sentence for contempt of court. He continued to be active in civil libertarian causes, and was called an "enemy collaborator" by right-wing pamphleteers when he ran for his judgeship in 1966. All through his judicial career, though, he has enjoyed great popularity among Detroit's Negroes-and even among a few of the city's whites...
Died. Ralph W. Burger, 79, retired president of the vast ($5.4 billion annual sales) A. & P. food chain founded by the Hartford family; of diabetes and heart disease; in Daytona Beach, Fla. Burger's 52-year career ran from grocery clerk to the top job before he quit in 1963. In 1951 he doubled his duties by becoming head of the John A. Hartford Foundation. As remuneration from the foundation, he stipulated only one red carnation each...
...other major carriers, they are members of the International Association of Machinists. Now that the T.W.U. has won the 25.5% package with American, the I.A.M. is unlikely to accept less from the other carriers. Another complicating factor for the airlines is that I.A.M. President Roy Siemiller, who ran the 1966 strike, will retire this June at 68. Siemiller, craggy, bespectacled and steel-hard, doubtless hopes to exit triumphantly with an exceptional agreement...
Success is hardly assured. Circulation is still only some 145,000, and losses ran to more than $1,000,000 in the first year. But at the first birthday breakfast party in Manhattan last week, the orange juice was spiked as much with enthusiasm as with Dom Perignon...