Word: bank
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fight could mark the end of Patterson's ring career, for he'll certainly never get another shot at Liston's crown. Floyd was probably crying all the way to the bank; he earned $330,000 for his effort, which comes to $9,138,461.53 per hour...
...first the unions wanted an across-the-board pay raise of $10 a week. The publishers offered a sliding scale downward from $3.50. The gap narrowed to the point where there was only $2.75 separating their positions. But negotiations broke down, and the strike was on. Ho, the Oriental bank messenger who became a millionaire in real estate, said that management had not even had time to present its final offer...
...next day's 36-hole playoff, the combatants were a study in contrast. Tall (6 ft. 1½ in.) and tightlipped, Charles acted just like the bank clerk he once was; stumpy and waggish, Rodgers swapped wisecracks with the gallery. The American's grin turned to a grimace as Charles one-putted eleven of the first 18 holes and took a three-stroke lead. He then picked up another five strokes in five holes and breezed to an eight-stroke victory. "I must have demoralized him," said Charles...
...Jean-Paul Sartre sees God as merely a projection of the human psyche. Whether God exists or not, Sartre believes, changes nothing in the concrete condition of man. But Sartre "must be pained to see some of the results of his cogitations" in the put-on atheism of Left Bank beatniks...
...more than half his earnings. Not counting the many millions that foreign investors will have put into these overseas hotels, the Hilton chain by 1964 will be worth well over $300 million. "Where does Hilton go from here?" asks Lawrence Stern, chairman of Chicago's American National Bank, a Hilton director. "To the moon!" Hilton people get to talking like that...