Word: closedown
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...This is a rich, white men's war," he said. "Ifthey don't bring the troops home, we need to closedown the country...
...particularly in the Northeast, students demonstrated against the bombing with varying degrees of fervor. At Harvard, 150 demonstrators once more ransacked the Center for International Affairs, after a march from downtown Boston. After a bitter meeting of the university senate, Columbia joined 100 other colleges in a one-day closedown last week. At the University of Maryland, Governor Marvin Mandel called out the National Guard to enforce a curfew after students repeatedly blocked U.S. 1. Last weekend in New York, 50,000 marchers?some from as far away as Nebraska?demonstrated in the rain against the bombing. Much...
...Management Ltd. and its USIF,* Real Estate. Swamped by the equivalent of a run on the bank, the directors of the Nassau-based USIF "temporarily" suspended sales and redemptions, thus freezing the assets of 23,000 European, Latin American and Asian investors who had put up $276 million. The closedown leaves the future of the fund in considerable doubt; to some degree, it also tarnishes the more than 350 other funds that operate in similar fashion from foreign tax havens beyond the regulatory reach of countries where they seek investors...
...Texas, where Republican Senator John Tower and Democrat Ralph Yarborough were both touring, Houstonians seemed lore interested in the conditions of their drought-seared lawns than in the fate of the Middle East. In Amarillo, at the opposite end of the state, people were fretting over the closedown of a SAC base, not because the move involves any highfalutin' global implications but because it will cost the community $30 million a year in local income...
Prince Edward County also had some leeway. Since the Supreme Court ruling on the subject of tuition grants limited itself to pronouncing them illegal when part of a school-closedown program, county supervisors could presumably reopen the public schools for Negroes and any whites who wanted to attend -and then resume their old practice of providing funds to help the white-only foundation schools. To settle this issue will take another long battle through the state and federal courts...