Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WXYZ-TV in 1957, Gordon quickly turned to dirt digging. He ruffled the influential Detroit Athletic Club when he revealed that it was at tempting to have an adjacent city street closed for use as a parking lot. The club, which lists Gordon as a member, was forced to buy the property. Then he disclosed a ticket-scalping ring made up of box-office employees at Tiger Stadium. Detroit Tigers Owner Harvey Hansen demanded the names of the scalpers, but Gordon snapped, "That isn't my job." He told Hansen to find the culprits himself...
...million in the red, despite a city charter specifically outlawing deficit spending. Then Gordon let it be known that Miriani had amassed a too-chic-to-be-mayorly wardrobe, also had been junketing to New York at the expense of lobbyists as well as soliciting city-government appointees to buy $10 tickets to his annual birthday parties. Federal authorities and listeners were equally appalled; Miriani, now a city councilman, is awaiting trial to account for $250,000 in unreported "gift" income...
Some segments of the Beatles' audience read messages into the songs that may never have been intended. The hippie brigade, for example, has adopted as an anthem of sorts She's Leaving Home, which tells of a runaway girl whose parents gave her everything money could buy but no happiness. "Man, that's the story of the hippies," says one of them. A 15-year-old boy who left home to become a hippie interprets the Beatles' songs as a put-down of his parents: "They're saying all the things I always wanted...
...four of us," explains Ringo, "have had the most hectic lives. We have got almost anything money can buy. But when you can do that, the things you buy mean nothing after a time. You look for something else, for a new experience. It's like your Dad going to the boozer and you want to find out what
...syndicate, a British group, and a French outfit led by Baron Marcel Bich, a millionaire ballpoint-pen manufacturer. Bich already owns one 12-meter yacht, has shares in two others, including Intrepid's trial horse, Constellation, has a fourth on the drawing boards, and is reportedly dickering to buy Intrepid herself. If the baron was discouraged by the odds, he certainly did not show it. "We are ready to issue a challenge for 1970," he said, "as soon as these races are over...