Word: walls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer act of getting something done, Warton and Von Rosen have won applause from a legion of frustrated humanitarians. Relief officials who elected to go through the usual channels have encountered, and sometimes created, a wall of Byzantine obstruction. Tons of food are now stockpiled on the islands of Fernando Poo and Sao Tome, in Lagos and at other points?but the combatants cannot agree on how it is to be delivered. Nigeria insists that it come by overland route, where federal forces can make an in spection for arms. Biafra insists on an air route, claiming that the Nigerians...
...remote, inaccessible powers." He urged that younger people, including some students and faculty, be made trustees (the average age is now 62). In filling a new vacancy, the board last week ignored this advice, passed over such proposed candidates as Negro Psychologist Kenneth Clark to select its usual type: Wall Street Investment Banker Harold A. Rousselot...
...proposal, the Big Board hopes to fend off an even sharper cut in commissions proposed by the SEC, which contends that today's rate schedule is too high. The regulatory authority would cut fees on orders for more than 400 shares, starting Sept. 15. Much to Wall Street's embarrassment, the SEC has shown in a month of Washington hearings that brokers generally give up most of their commissions on big block trades. The money goes instead to other brokers, who perform unrelated services for the customer, such as research or selling mutual-fund shares. As part...
...year history, President Eugene H. Adams declared that "We are very mad about this situation." Next day First National further vented its anger by placing full-page newspaper ads to denounce what it described as a "blatant, selfish attempt of a part-time Coloradan turned New York Wall Street raider to take over...
Somewhere so high above this wall...