Word: went
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went through the garage of an unpretentious apartment building near the heart of Havana, went up six flights in a tiny elevator, and knocked on a heavy door. He was scrutinized through a two-way mirror, then admitted into the presence of Eldridge Cleaver-Black Panther leader, author and, for the past six months, one of America's most mysterious fugitives...
...volunteers preceded the police in their sweeps through ghetto streets, warning residents to obey the 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew imposed by Mayor Hugh Addonizio. The disorder abated quickly, without causing sympathy tremors in other New Jersey cities. In San Francisco, black clergymen, labor officials and professional people went out into the neighborhoods to help cool rising tempers following a police raid on Black Panther headquarters...
Publisher Charles Gould of the San Francisco Examiner says he has turned away "tens of thousands of dollars" in advertising that he found overly offensive. Still, the Examiner went ahead and ran the Sister George ad unretouched. Another display ad showed a motorcycle gang from Naked Angels closing in on a near-nude girl. The copy read, "Mad dogs from hell! Hunting down their prey with a quarter-ton of hot steel between their legs...
Commercial bankers were strapped for funds. To discourage borrowing by big corporate customers, the bankers are talking more and more about increasing their 71% prime rate. Roy L. Reierson, senior vice president of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co., went so far as to suggest that the prime rate ought to be lifted to 10%, if only to "shock" businessmen into holding down spending...
Since Epstein was dead, the Beatles reasoned, why not reverse the sequence of payment? When they proposed to take in the gross themselves and disburse Nemperor's 25%, Triumph went to court. Until the fight is settled, Electrical and Musical Industries, Ltd., which produces and markets the Beatle recordings in Britain through the Apple label, has frozen all royalties. The total tied up is now about...