Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...leading the campaign against Stevens, Rogers views the corporation as something other than a traditional Wall Street monolith with unassailable domestic and international financial operations and ties. Rogers likes to think of Stevens simply as a Board of Directors, a group of "human personalities" that give the corporation its powers, with self-interest their primary consideration. Rogers is a strategist; he tries to use the enormous financial power of the ACTWU and other unions to threaten the personal interests of Stevens directors and to force them to resign their directorships on the boards of Stevens and other corporations...
Overall the Crimson appeared to adjust to the less-than-favorable conditions better than the Polar Bears, whose short-wall passes were not as effective as Harvard's long chip shots...
DIED. André Meyer, 81, Paris-born investment banker who dominated Wall Street's aggressive Lazard Frères & Co. for 34 years; of pneumonia; in Lausanne, Switzerland. A star at Lazard's Paris affiliate before fleeing France in 1940, Meyer became senior partner at the firm's Manhattan headquarters in 1944 and turned a cautious house into a corporate merger machine instrumental in the making of such giants as RCA and ITT. A compulsive worker, he amassed a fortune estimated at half a billion dollars, became an adviser to Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and gave millions...
Cubans are a patriotic people, proud of the accomplishments of their revolution. But their feelings cannot be assessed only from the formulaic wall-posters which spout platitudes like "We confront the future with the experience of 20 years and the enthusiasm of the first day." One must witness, as I did many times during my visit, joyous occasions when audiences broke into spontaneous cheers and the singing of revolutionary songs. On July 25, the eve of the anniversary of the revolution, a boisterous nightclub hushed to a reverential silence as a popular singer began the national anthem. The audience displayed...
Dealing with community pressure--responding to angry neighbors--has become a large part of the job of the community relations office in the last few years. Controversy has marked Brewer's year on the job, from the furor over a wall near the Church Street Garage, to the leasing of a building across the "Red Line" on Ware St., to the messy eviction of tenants from 7 Sumner...