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...attempt to conserve cash, Webb & Knapp (Canada) wants to pay the holders of its debentures in interest notes instead of dollars over the next three years and promises to undertake no new projects. But Canadian moneymen were skeptical that Impresario Zeckendorf could really restrain himself. So "Big Bill" had to go. His exit at Trizec followed virtually automatically, and the departure was sweet revenge for Britain's Second Covent Garden Properties Co. Ltd., which has a 24.5% interest in Trizec; six representatives of Second Covent Garden had been forced off the board of the U.S.'s Webb & Knapp...
...President said the demonstrations were 'ill-timed'--he doesn't understand that segregation is ill-timed," the impassioned clergyman proclaimed. After his speech he said Kennedy should have thought a federal injunction to restrain Birmingham police from breaking up the Negro demonstrations...
...press conference in Quincy House shortly before he spoke to a Young Republican rally, Keating said that if President Kennedy feels he does not have authority to restrain Alabama officials by executive order, he should support legislation specifically giving him this power. Keating and several other Republican Senators have introduced such legislation; the President has said it is unnecessary...
...board of directors (mostly, it seemed, local businessmen, past or present officers of HSA, or its founders), nor his charges of "lie" did much to allay my personal misgivings. As he is probably aware, the task of a board of directors is usually to promote rather than to restrain a corporation...
That unity is based in large part on the Franco-German reconciliation. In 1945, Germany was a disarmed and bankrupt country. The Western zones were permitted to rearm only within the bounds of NATO, which was designed partly to restrain any possible West German hopes of regaining the Eastern zones and the Oder-Neisse territories by force. Without tying Bonn into NATO, the U.S. would never have permitted German rearmament. Similarly, the Common Market is designed partly to contain West Germany's prodigious economic growth. And the Franco-German Pact, which reverses several hundred years of history, is the strongest...