Word: august
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was little reason to expect opposition when the 57-year-old judge was nominated for the high court in August. Haynsworth had served on the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals for twelve years, and had done little to arouse adamant opposition. During confirmation hearings, however, liberal Senators raised conflict-of-interest charges. They showed that Haynsworth had failed to disqualify himself in two cases where he had financial interest: a 1963 case between a union and a firm that did business with a vending machine company partly owned by Haynsworth, and a 1967 case involving the Brunswick Corp., whose...
Baker, the retiring dean, will go on sabbatical from January until August 31, 1970, when he will officially retire from the Business School faculty. During his stay at the Business School he never took a sabbatical. He said yesterday that "this is very happy all around...
...managed to survive them all by means of affluent and generous trustees. Last month, while friends of mine were being smashed at M.I.T.. I was in New York getting smashed over oysters and wine at the Century Club. The trustees were meeting to decide whether the August issue would appear before December. Norman Mailer had been elected to their board, and as a consolation for his having failed to be elected mayor of New York, the dinner was being held November 4th. "And would it have been worth it, after all?" If only they had known what a dishevelled...
...blast rocked a United Fruit Co. pier on the Hudson River, there have been eight dynamitings. Before each explosion, the bombers called guards in the targeted buildings, warning them to clear the area, and also informed the news media. Though no deaths resulted, there was one near miss. In August, a blast in a Broadway trust company injured 17 people. Some might have been killed, but all were partially shielded by a two-ton computer, which was moved two feet by the detonation of 24 dynamite sticks...
Britain, which depends almost wholly on Canadian nickel, has been hurt worst. The country faces what the London Times calls "one of the gravest raw materials crises since wartime controls." Stainless-steel prices have climbed 35% since August. Rolls-Royce is reclaiming the metal from scrapped engines, and some auto manufacturers will probably cut down on nickel-bearing chromium trim. Lord Melchett, head of the British Steel Corp., has appealed to the Soviets, who also produce nickel, to sell more...