Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Atlantic to the Urals . . . this Western Europe which, in former times, was the dream of the wise and the ambition of the powerful." For the first time, De Gaulle conceded that the European Common Market might prove a step in the evolution of "an imposing confederation . . . a Western group at the very least equivalent to that which exists in the East." And, in words designed to soothe the divisive Franco-British feud over the Common Market, he declared that the Common Market nations "do not want this organization to injure the other countries of Europe and we must expect...
...organizer peeled from a thick wad of bills in his hand. With traffic effectively halted, mobs snake-danced through the streets, paraded past the Diet and the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with Kishi" and "Eisenhower don't come." Ranging from Communists to Kabuki actors,* the mob included one group whose banner bore a likeness of Christ; true to the left-wing bias common among students at missionary-founded schools in the Far East, a contingent even showed up from St. Paul's University, partially supported by the U.S. Episcopal Church...
...much as anything else, Kishi's political survival was threatened by rival leaders in his own Liberal-Democratic Party, who see the time as one of opportunity for their own political advancement rather than as a crisis for Japan. "Kishi should quit immediately," said one group of Liberal Democratic wheeler-dealers after a flurry of meetings last week. And when the Premier approached Japan's N.A.M., the powerful Federation of Economic Organizations, for $250,000 to publicize his stand, he was turned away with the remark: "Money is hard to come by these days." Nonetheless, at week...
...stayed on for 18 months as a graduate student in the business school. He got a job as a security analyst in the Minneapolis brokerage firm of Piper, Jaffray & Hopwood, quickly impressed clients with the way he could spot a company's potential earning power. With a small group of backers, his first venture was buying a big block of stock in Cincinnati's Balcrank Inc., a maker of equipment for service stations. When his group sold out a year later, it almost doubled its money...
When Riklis' group began buying into Gruen Watch Co. and gained seven seats on the twelve-seat board, a squabble broke out. Riklis got out, saying: "I do not like to fight." His group bought into Cincinnati's Rapid Electrotype Co., a maker of mats and printing plates that was worth $3.800,000 and had liquid assets of $1,900,000. Riklis then issued debentures to raise $6,500,000, used part of it to get the controlling interest in another firm he was acquiring-Chicago's American Colortype Co., a producer of color plates. His next...