Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brighton National Bank in Colorado, said Saxon and his aides, a Denver mystery man named James W. Egan, whom they described as an apparent "front for gangsters," secretly got control of the bank before it had even opened, and "completely milked" its assets. Two financiers, one with a criminal record, took over the First National Bank of Marlin, Texas, through a front man, said Saxon; they promptly turned around and collected $179,000 in commissions for selling the bank mortgages of dubious value...
...students wanting to enter a Peace Corps training project this summer who have not yet taken the placement test will have one more opportunity to do so. The test will be administered at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at Brighton High School, 25 Warren St. in Brighton...
...surviving Seminole Indians, whose stories of the old warrior days and Everglade hunter's skill (nine deer in a single day) made him both a prime source for historians and a favorite guide for such sportsmen as Henry Ford and Thomas Edison; on the reservation near Brighton...
...British Labor Party's official song is more auld hat than Auld Lang Syne. At the party's annual conference in Brighton last week, the leaders as usual linked hands on the platform and (to the tune known in the U.S. as Maryland, My Maryland) chanted the quaint lyrics...
There were no Socialist martyrs at Brighton, but Prime Minister Harold Wilson, just back from Washington, had a hard time keeping that old Red Flag flying and showing just the right hue. Wilson's major troubles are two: 1) the continuing, alarming economic crisis, and 2) opposition from his own left, or deep-red wing...