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...most-divorced families in the nation. Visiting with her two children at Winrock Farm, Rockefeller's sprawling stockbreeding barony near Little Rock, Ark., was Jeanette Edris, 36, a tall, cool ex-debutante from Seattle, previously married to a pro football star, a lawyer and a broker. Jeanette's father is a logger's son named Bill Edris, 61, a four-times-married, hardfisted, carrot-topped entrepreneur who has amassed an estimated $10 million by putting his hand to all sorts of ventures (hotels, race tracks, theaters, etc.) in the Pacific Northwest. Like her father, Jeanette seems...
Heads of Agreement. Until the last moment it looked as if some hitch, some remaining suspicion, might prevent the settlement. But U.S. Ambassador Jefferson Cafferey, acting as honest broker, had done much to diminish mutual mistrust. Besides, Britain was anxious for a settlement. War Secretary Antony Head was flown in from London, given great latitude in negotiating, and told to get a settlement. Both sides began some fast compromising. Finally they initialed what was called a "Heads of Agreement," a new bit of British diplomatic jargon for agreement in principle. It provides that...
...Indiana mortgage broker, who made consistent profits on federal housing deals, ranging up to $400,000 on a $50,000 investment, made no profit when he sold half an interest in a Fort Wayne apartment project for $7,500 to his good friend and penthouse neighbor, the late R. Earl Peters, then Indiana FHA commissioner...
Part of their equity consisted of $22,000 in "cash" from Gordon. Actually, it represented his fee for drawing up the application. The application also stated that a New York broker would put up $181,783. The fact was that none of them knew the broker...
Illegal? Supporters of public power promptly charged that the whole idea was illegal. They said that under the 1946 Atomic Energy Act, AEC is authorized to make 25-year contracts "in connection with" its needs, but not to act as a "broker" between private power companies...