Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...merely as the place for his academic problems: this is a misconception. The Freshman Dean's Office helps students out financially many times in helping to get home or meeting small personal emergencies. Freshmen use it for every excuse from flirting with the secretaries to getting advice on the stock market. A comment by one of the secretaries in the Office who had just helped a student is a good example of much of the Administration attitude: "Officially I'm not supposed to do it, but it means nothing to me: I have nothing more important to do." They have...
Several planned expressways, primarily the Inner Belt, which will destroy substantial amounts of Cambridge's housing stock; about 1200 families will be displaced by the Belt alone...
...measure both of the changes Cambridge is now experiencing and of the agony which those changes are causing is what has come to be called the City's "housing crisis." The crux of the problem is simple: Cambridge's housing stock is not large enough to accommodate all the people who want to live in the City. Generally more affluent than the older residents, the newcomers have bid up the price of housing...
...private citizen. Those few friends who will talk about what he is up to do so with the hasty over-the-shoulder air of a heister peddling a hot watch in front of a police station. Among his friends, says one intimate, Johnson cannot help noting that the stock market has gone to hell, inflation is rampant and Nixon has had more men in Viet Nam than L.B.J. ever did. But to talk to outsiders about L.B.J. and his works is to court disaster. After a news commentator at Johnson's KTBC-TV in Austin talked to a reporter...
Soon Eddie has enough political and financial leverage to engineer, among other entertainments, the election of Warren G. Harding and the stock market crash of '29. (One of his hired hands -a rather unsteady parody of the real Arnold Rothstein-amuses himself with the trivial business of fixing the 1919 World Series.) Somewhere in the middle of the corporate organization chart, Al Capone also works for Eddie...