Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...table in the New York Yacht Club, which has held it for 123 years. All that Courageous Skipper Ted Hood and his eleven-man crew got for their troubles was a few postrace swallows of champagne and a dunking in the soupy waters of Newport harbor. Undaunted, Alan Bond, the Australian real estate operator who had sunk $9 million into the disappointing Southern Cross challenge, promised to return to Newport some day, but with another boat...
...National Conference on Inflation in Washington, B.C., at week's end. Chances of achieving a broad-based consensus for action are dim. The continuing gulf between White House conservatives and their critics (who do not have many imaginative ideas either) was hardly narrowed last week when Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, drew boos and hisses after telling a gathering of union leaders and representatives of black, poor, aged and handicapped people that "percentage-wise," Wall Street brokers were the biggest losers of income in the present economic decline...
Meet the Press. The story of Alan Greenspan, the presidential aide/stockbroker's friend whose words sound like doubletalk. Ch. 4, 12:30 p.m. 1/2 hour...
...Yeah," he replied somewhat calmly, "and we took it and shoved it right up Alan Bond's ass where it belongs...
...singing and the shoving of people into the water went on for several hours by dockside but the loudspeakers stopped after "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and then "Waltzing Matilda." Even the vanquished crew of the Cross joined the hysteria. Alan Bond, who sank nearly $9 million into the fruitless campaign, put on a show for the crowd, jumping into the water nearly on top of his boat's designer Bob Miller...