Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football stadium across the street. But the trees had already been bulldozed- which was to be expected, since they were in the way of the stadium expansion. The football stadium presently seats 65,000 persons, but Frank Erwin, chairman of the Board of Regents, had led a campaign to build a new deck of 14,000 seats. A lot of people here thought one of the last things this university needed was 14,000 more football seats and an extension of that concrete monstrosity to twice its present height. But nobody had been told about the worst aspect...
...that the faculty members who voted against him were somehow linked to SDS, and that the whole affair was cooked up by a coalition of trouble-making students and professors. After these public statements to the press and radio. even the Young Democrats and Young Republicans announced a joint campaign to send representatives all over the state refuting Erwin's statements. The governing board of the Law School voted 9-1 in favor of condemning Erwin...
...heirs may sometimes be hard pressed. At his death, Bob Kennedy left campaign debts and expenses of more than $3,000,000, which his estate could not pay. Edward M. Kennedy has raised money to repay these debts, and other members of the family have made contributions. A close friend of Ethel's, recalling the "extravagance of the ebullient life" that she, Bob and the children enjoyed, hints that income and outgo run a neck-and-neck race in her household as in the ordinary American...
...Western specialists could check the veracity of the Chronicle reports, they have proved to be accurate. That only makes the newsletter's prediction about Stalin seem more significant. Issue No. 10, which has just begun to circulate in Russia, reports that the Soviet leaders are planning a major campaign to "rehabilitate" Stalin on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of his birth next Dec. 21. Major articles in Pravda and Izvestia are in preparation, together with a four-volume edition of his works. Posters and a statue are also being made ready for the event. As if to confirm...
...that once were Pan Am's alone are now aswarm with competitors. To cut its losses, Pan Am has scrapped 23 unprofitable flights in the Pacific and announced layoffs of 450 pilots and flight engineers. Said Halaby last week: "We have not reached the end of our economy campaign...