Word: cash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair entered the store. One of the men moved toward the cash register. The other ordered three Harvard students watching the TV at the front of the store to get to the rear. An other, who was buying ice cream, was also ordered to the back...
...second annual message on crime, Lyndon Johnson last week proposed a program aimed, like much of his recent legislation, at spurring local initiative with federal cash. Lamenting "years of neglect" in this field, the President urged Congress to mount a realistic and comprehensive attack on a threat that, as he put it, "can turn us into a nation of captives imprisoned nightly behind chained doors, double locks, barred windows." Key proposals...
...estimated that 850 bank holdups were staged last year v. 609 in 1932, the heisty heyday of the John Dillinger breed of gunman. Most bank jobs today, said Owens, are pulled by amateurs, who figure the bank is the place to go-with a gun-when they need cash "for medical bills, vacations, Christmas gifts, tuition payments" -even for payments on a bank loan...
Denounce the Dead. Right or wrong, his clients pay for their freedom. Not long ago, Foreman pocketed $200,000 for winning Houston Oil Heiress Cecil Blaffer Hudson a record divorce settlement of $6,500,000. If his clients lack cash, Foreman accepts anything else of value. He now owns more than 40 houses and an office building in Houston, plus several hundred acres scattered throughout Harris County (Houston). His wife pads around their $75,000 home in a pair of house slippers studded with diamond engagement rings earned from his clients...
...when Mrs. Surowitz sought an expert to hatch her little nest egg. Proudly, she turned to her son-in-law, Irving Brilliant, a Phi Beta Kappa, Columbia-trained economist and a Harvard Law School graduate. Brilliant recommended Hilton; so doggedly did he handle Mrs. Surowitz's cash and some of his own that by 1960 their combined Hilton investment totaled $45,000 in common stock, plus a $10,000 debenture. Then, in 1962, Mrs. Surowitz received a curious letter from Hilton: the company was offering to buy 300,000 shares of its own stock from Hilton stockholders at slightly...