Word: brokering
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...were extremely lucky," said Bruynzeel afterward. He had gambled by piloting Stormy on a longer northerly route, hoping to make better time by picking up more favorable trade winds. It proved a providential tactic; the heavily favored Ondine, skippered by U.S. Ship Broker Sumner ("Huey") Long, took the shorter southern route, and was so repeatedly becalmed that she had to drop out of the race...
...comes naturally to Attorney Witkin, 33, Insurance Executive McCarthy, 44, and Real Estate Broker Andelman, 36. They were "discovered" four years ago when an executive from station WUNR overheard their loud banter in a Boston bar and invited them to sound off at a microphone. Sports Huddle was such an instant hit that six months later it was transferred to WBZ, a 50,000-watt station heard in 32 states and Canada. Before long, the station, which also broadcasts the Boston Bruins' games, had some grievances of its own: McCarthy dismissed Bruin President Weston Adams Jr. as "the biggest...
...embarrassing as it may have been to the Air Force, Heck's decision neither embarrassed nor surprised his family, who knew his feelings from his letters-and sympathized. Said his father, a real estate broker in Chula Vista, Calif.: "It was not a snap judgment. From about September on-from the time he had to go back to Viet Nam, in fact-we had the feeling that he felt things there were not the way he expected them to be. And then when we had this mass bombing, before Christmas, it was just the last straw that triggered...
...Chavaree a union organizer, said support for the union waned after Coop efforts to sweeten life for its employees. A "notorious" union broker [in the person of Patricia Astor], he claimed, had been hired specially by the Coop to case job-related grievances...
...financial underwriter. The full group included two partners in Chicago's Arthur Andersen & Co., one of the "Big Eight" accounting firms; Glenn R. Miller, who until his sudden departure less than a week earlier had been the No. 3 man at Walston & Co., a large Wall Street broker and underwriter with 105 branch offices nationwide; and Jack L. Clark, the Oklahoma City builder who as Four Seasons' chairman, engineered the geriatric razzle-dazzle...