Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last month ordered back to school. Those orders were part of a general damping down of revolutionary chaos in the interests of getting the spring grain crop planted and the economy moving. But last week's youthful display indicates that Mao has changed his mind about any letup. Wall posters, in fact, reported that Chou and other Maoist officials publicly admitted that it has been a mistake to disband the Red Guards...
...strikers were straight out of the Social Register, Who's Who and Dun & Bradstreet: Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit ney, Ogden Phipps and Captain Harry Guggenheim, to name just a few. Their spokesman was Jack Dreyfus Jr., senior partner of Dreyfus & Co., the Wall Street investment house. Dreyfus & Companions are horse owners, and what got them riled up last week was the failure of the New York legislature to enact a bill that would have resulted in higher purses at the state's thoroughbred racing tracks. It got them so angry that they refused to run their horses at Aqueduct...
...only the beginning of the problem. British Petroleum, for whom the chartered ship was hauling crude from Kuwait to England, had insured its cargo for $1,600,000. The ship itself, owned by a company called Barracuda Tanker Corp., which was incorporated in Liberia but is controlled from Wall Street, carried "hull" insurance of $16.5 million. As is traditional in marine insurance, the policy (with an annual premium of $330,000) had been spread among 120 syndicates in the U.S. and Britain, which will now pay off to Union Oil, the regular charterer of the ship and the beneficiary...
Ever since the Berlin Wall went up, East Germany's Communist government has been pressuring the country's Evangelical Church to break its ties with Protestantism in West Germany. Last week, in a remarkable act of defiance against their Red bosses, East German Protestant leaders unanimously voted to maintain the union-and then went on to join with their West German counterparts in electing a new chairman of the All-German Church Council...
Such critics reflect a tendency to categorize Martin as a diehard, unswerving conservative-but Martin's record belies the notion. He is, rather, a monetary pragmatist who makes, and changes, policy according to what he sees as current requirements. A lifelong Democrat, Martin was a successful Wall Street broker and a familiar figure in Manhattan nightspots in the '30s. When he was named chairman of the New York Stock Exchange in 1938, President Roosevelt told him: "Your job is the worst in the world-next to mine." After leaving the exchange, Martin served as president of the Export...