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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Warren Commission failed to dispel suspicions that Lee Harvey Oswald was not the only man involved in the killing. Unless given a specific goal, and a deadline, commissions can labor for years over the most trifling matters. The Corregidor-Bataan Memorial Commission took 14 years to arrange to build a monument to U.S. and Filipino war dead. In the interval, the exasperated Filipinos put up their own memorial. Even when a commission issues a persuasive report, it is often ignored. Numerous Government task forces have come to the conclusion that Negro ghettos must receive more substantial federal aid. Yet, says...
Watson said that the director of Athletics will have some serious problems to contend with in the next few years. Among them, he said, are merging Radcliffe sports activities into the Harvard athletic department, and planning to build more badly needed indoor athletic facilities
...Britain as elsewhere, there was a widespread demand for them and for even less effective drugs. Vaccination, at this late stage of a continent-wide epidemic, will be wasted on many people who have already been exposed to infection, since the shot takes two to three weeks to build up immunity...
...money he has made, is making and stands to make is enough to prompt the Bank of America to build a memorial wing and name it after him. Variety estimates that in 1970 his gross income will reach a high of $45,000 per week, which comes to a cozy $2,300,000 a year. That estimate does not include film sales or screenwriting fees for adapting his plays...
...chairman of the Chase Manhattan Bank and a centimillionaire in his own right, would expect to have no trouble at all negotiating a loan from his friendly neighborhood banker. Or so it was assumed in 1967 when Rockefeller and a group of associates privately embarked on a plan to build "Rockefeller Center West," a $150 million redevelopment project in downtown San Francisco. Last week Rockefeller notified the city that he had been unable to raise enough money to begin work on the nucleus of the project, a $30 million, 16-story hotel. At an interest rate of more than...