Word: offing
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Early last year, she moved to New York to "turn on the major Wall Street houses." Now, C.E.P. has about 800 subscribers for its regular research publications-including banks, investment houses, foundations, universities and more than 40 corporations. Harper & Row has already published one of its special reports as a...
Divorced. By Remi Cynthia Brooke, 21, daughter of the Massachusetts Senator, a student at Northeastern: Donald Raymond Hasler, 21, engineering student; on grounds of cruel and abusive treatment; after 1½ years of marriage, no children; in Boston. The uncontested divorce was obtained last February but announced only last week...
Died. Oscar Lewis, 55, noted University of Illinois anthropologist and author of The Children of Sánchez and La Vida, a collection of intimate portraits of Mexican and Puerto Rican slumdwellers; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. His books were based on lengthy tape-recorded interviews that described as...
Died. Robert Lishman, 67, indefatigable congressional investigator; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. As chief counsel of a House subcommittee, Lishman directed the 1958 inquiry that led to the resignation of Presidential Assistant Sherman Adams for accepting gifts from Industrialist Bernard Goldfine; a year later, Lishman was instrumental in exposing rigged...
Died. Harry Romanoff, eightyish, one of the last of Chicago's Front Page-style reporters; in Chicago. "Romy" became famous for the telephone impersonations that often enabled him to scoop rivals without ever leaving the city room. Consider his coverage of the 1966 Speck murder case: as soon as...