Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leasco acquired Philadelphia's Reliance Insurance Co., an old-line company with useful cash assets. This deal, accomplished through a stock swap, sparked an inquiry by Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Emanuel Celler, who has serious doubts about conglomerates' taking over insurance companies and using their funds for expansion. Among the details turned up in hearings last week was that, in preparing the bid, Leasco executives used the code name "Raquel" for Reliance to conceal the identity of the target from even Leasco's own employees...
...show has been mounted that gives Bird both a family and an ancestry. It traces for the first time the full development of the canny, determined peasant's son who literally walked to Paris from his native Rumania to become an artist. Currently installed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the show was initiated by Director Thomas Messer of New York's Guggenheim Museum. Messer's biggest triumph was to get Rumanian museums and collectors to release six works of their country's most celebrated modern artist. Loans from other owners (including Paris' Museum...
...four largest rallies-in Boston, New York, Minneapolis, and Philadelphia-drew a total of 500,000 people. The few outbreaks of violence were reported very mild. At one in front of the White House, five people were arrested...
...campus-wide assembly at the University of Pennsylvania, called by the Provost of the University, was attended by 2500 students and faculty, who called for immediate withdrawal of all U.S. forces in Vietnam. The assembly was followed by a march to the J.F.K. Plaza in downtown Philadelphia, where 50,000 gathered. Noam Chomsky was the principle speaker...
DARTMOUTH-PENN: Clark Beier is gone, but so is Bernie Z. Dartmouth is better all around than the Quakers and the game is being played in Hanover, N.H., while the Astroturf in Philadelphia rests up. The Indians will jump off to a quick lead, and the Quakers' attempt to recover will be too little too late. It'd b great if Penn could win, wouldn't it. The Big Green...