Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same time as the Moscow demonstration was going on, W.R.I, teams in Warsaw, Sofia and Budapest went into action. All the protesters were arrested as they handed out their leaflets. In Moscow, Miss Rovere and Papworth were questioned for more than five hours, then deported unceremoniously to London next morning. Poland expelled its five Danes almost as quickly. But Hungary and Bulgaria were not so hasty. At week's end, however, the Bulgarian government released the four Italian youths who had demonstrated in Sofia, and Hungary freed its five protesters, including Robert Eaton, 24, of Philadelphia. Were the demonstrations...
Solid Achievements. They went home with a stack of business cards from people who were sufficiently impressed to offer to help get jobs for prisoners seeking parole (a man cannot get a parole unless he first has some assurance of a job). Such constructive energy is bringing solid achievements. A committee of the Colorado state legislature has just announced that it will soon propose two laws to help the convicts. One will reform parole procedures; the other will permit indeterminate sentences so that a prisoner can win an early release if he shows signs of rehabilitation. Warden Patterson says that...
Choosing Sides. Yet that rally faded quickly. Next day dozens of other big lenders, led by Chase's archrival, Manhattan's First National City Bank, pointedly cut their prime rates by only half as much, to 61%. Only a handful went along with Chase. By such action, commercial banks took sides for a most un-bankerlike battle over the cost of business borrowing. The struggle confronted Wall Street with renewed uncertainties. When the exchanges reopened after a regular Wednesday trading holiday stock prices went down, only to come back a bit at week...
...three cars was traced to defective steel clips, penny-sized and costing less than 10 apiece to produce, that were part of the carburetor assemblies. Because that same sort of clip had been used in almost all of G.M.'s six-cylinder cars, the huge recall notice went...
Syndicate Specialist. A Manhattan-born Quaker, Helmsley grew up in The Bronx, joined the firm he now heads after leaving high school at 16. Rising from office boy to rent collector to building manager to broker, he performed so well that his name went on the company's title before he was 30. Later, as a specialist in syndicate purchasing, Helmsley joined with Lawrence Wien, a Manhattan lawyer and investor, and began putting together his realty domain. The Empire State Building, which they bought in 1961 for $65 million, is the crown jewel, but their widespread holdings include shopping...