Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last month Robert Stewart, 21, emerged from a grocery and was challenged by two cops. "Hey, come here," commanded one, grabbing his arm. "Get yourself off this corner right now." When Stewart replied that he was there to buy canned milk, the cop spat, "Don't go getting smart." Stewart and eight witnesses claim that he was grappled into the squad car and pounded with night stick, fist and flashlight. Subsequent photos show Stewart's nose broken, eyes swollen nearly shut on a puffy face, the back of his head cratered by deep open wounds. Stewart received...
...concerned about the rapid increase in the number of cash tender offers being made to shareholders. There were 100 such acquisition offers in 1966 v. only eight in 1960. To make sure that they are legitimately and fairly made, the new law provides that anyone who wants to buy 10% or more of a company's stock must immediately identify himself and give a complete accounting of his negotiations and intentions. "Everybody is so scared of the SEC," observes one broker, "that they don't need to be afraid of the New York Stock Exchange...
...problem with the Republican Party is that, in its effort to recover from the debacle of 1964, it appears willing to buy unity at any price. A discussion on the floor of a major issue would lead to dissension beneficial to no one, the reasoning goes, so the issues have been buried in favor of the personalities...
Poitier's idea was to present the first inside look at the life and love of a young Negro couple. Fine in theory, but why did he have to do it in a story that not even the most gullible honky would buy? Poitier cast himself as a slick hustler in a continental-cut tux who spouts fluent Japanese, keeps a pet piranha, sits in on bongos and serves as baby sitter for a brood of Negro children, while running a trucking concern by day and a casino-on-wheels by night. Abbey Lincoln as Ivy is a sweet...
...firm, an old and fabulously respected French wine. His father was swindled out of ownership by a man whose daughter Christine (Yvonne Furneaux) now runs the company. Paul has only rights to the name Wagner, this preventing Christine from selling the company to crass American industrialists who won't buy the firm without its famous trademark. Paul has calculately engineered the marriage of Christine and his close friend Chris, a beach boy "working" the Riviera whose singular passion appears to be yachting. Consequently, Paul and Chris live as neighbors, idle because of Christine's income from the company, money...