Word: absorber
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard sophomore that year). He graduated in 1942 with an LL.B., but he had never had any real notion of practicing law: "If there had been a course in practical politics, I'd have taken that." He was, in fact, getting all the practical politics he could absorb-accompanying his father around the state, stumping for Curley and every other Democratic candidate in sight, and chinning with ward heelers over the mahogany bar in his father's restaurant. At 22, Larry was a rush-hour bartender in O'Brien's Café and Restaurant and chairman...
...bank has grown over the last several years," grumps Chicago Banker David M. Kennedy, 56, hitting at the archaic state law that forbids any Illinois bank to open branches. Seeking another way to grow, Kennedy's Continental Illinois National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $2.8 billion) this week will absorb the neighboring City National Bank & Trust Co. (assets: $385 million). The merger will make Continental Chicago's largest bank-just ahead of First National. But there may be trouble coming: though the Treasury Department approved the merger to help out slipping City National, Justice Department trustbusters have warned Chairman...
Like sponges soaking up water, the jails of Mississippi continue to absorb Freedom Riders. Arriving in two waves last week, another 23 bus riders were met by police at Jackson terminals, quietly arrested for breach of the peace and politely popped into jail. Their arrest brought the total so far to 164, all of whom have been convicted, except for one who was dismissed as a juvenile. Four of the 163 paid fines of $200 and were released, another 55 are free on $500 bond. Four others are in Jackson City jail, 20 are in Hinds county jail...
None of the 13 surviving Hearst papers in the U.S. found room for a single Times casualty. Detroit's two other dailies, the evening News (circ. 733,583) and the morning Free Press (573,273), were able to absorb only 29. Another 23 managed to stay in journalism by migrating, mostly to smaller papers, among them the Fresno, Calif., Bee (circ. 111,812) and the Rochester, Mich., Clarion, a weekly of 4,900 circulation...
...bent on expanding beyond Arizona, he plans to invest $20 million in baby skyscrapers in Southern California, last week broke ground for a $3,000,000 bank building in Roswell, N. Mex. "Fast as Phoenix is growing," says Murdock, "I can build office buildings faster than the town can absorb them...