Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...right and left RLA members were tremendous, and the meeting exploded as the left demanded immediate action. Led by Karl Hess, over fifty leftist members walked out of the conference and staged a sit-in at Fort Dix, in New Jersey. Rothbard, who with Hess had been a founder of RLA, denounced the move on tactical grounds-and very shortly thereafter, RLA fell apart as a national organization...
...bachelor approaching middle age, who lives with his cat on the Upper East Side, and goes to the hospital every day, to visit his twin sister, who is dying of a bone disease, and has just been divorced by her husband. The narrator's subject is the middle-aged founder of a Southern fundamentalist religion, which ordains anybody to the ministry by request (and the payment of a love offering), a former Bible salesman who did five years in jail for exhibitionism. The other characters are all refugees from every depressing Harold Pinter play you've ever seen-a virtual...
Died. Richard Prentice Ettinger, 77 co-founder of Prentice-Hall, Inc., who parlayed a manuscript and a promise of credit into a publishing empire worth more than $120 million in yearly sales; of heart disease; in Miami Beach. Ettinger began as a $4-a-week law clerk for Charles W. Gerstenberg, who in 1913 wrote a book on corporate finance. The two formed Prentice-Hall, Inc., talked a printer into publishing the book on credit, and thereafter concentrated on business and educational material. Once they found themselves stuck with thousands of copies of a volume on federal taxes; changes...
...plant vines. St. Helena's Louis M. Martini Co. stepped up production by one-fourth last year. "Like most of the family wineries, we are taking out just enough money to live on and plowing the rest back into the business," says Louis P. Martini, son of the founder. "We have never been more successful-or felt poorer...
Unlike McLucas' lawyer, Garry and, to a lesser extent, Roraback play up the involvement of the Panthers in the case, and the trial's political nature. Garry even takes every opportunity to remind the juror of the connection, introducing himself time and time again as, "representing Mr. Seale, co-founder and chairman of the Black Panther Party...