Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silent movie, Baldwin-Montrose Chemical Co. Chairman Herbert J. Siegel and Broadway Producer Ernest H. Martin (How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying) teamed up in a try to take over the company. They bought 143,100 shares, about 9% of Paramount stock, got two seats on the eleven-man board, promised a proxy fight for full control. Last week, however, the drama ended suddenly with the old management still in control. Presumably because they had already spent $225,000 in legal battles, would need to spend at least another $200,000 on a proxy fight, and still have...
...opposition to drink is strong and prohibition varies locally from state to state, Teetotaler Mohan has balanced his beer, gin, rum and whisky with breakfast foods, apple juice and catchup. Arvind Mafatlal, 43, who as oldest brother became chair man of Mafatlal Gagalbhai after his father's death eleven years ago, is leading it away from textiles and into more profitable chemicals. He has undertaken joint ventures with both Shell and Montecatini, has a $140 million expansion program under way that will make the brothers India's biggest petrochemical producers...
...tournaments and earned $449,048 in prize money-plus another $2,000,000 or so from endorsements, investments, articles, books and TV. That allows him to live in a $140,000 house, fly his own $225,000 airplane, stuff himself with steaks (sometimes four per meal), and get eleven hours sleep a night. It also entitles him to blow a round now and then. Like the awful 76 he shot in the Tournament of Champions in Las Vegas. Nothing to be alarmed about, said Jack-just a slight hangover. "I'm still reacting to the week of the Masters...
...Eleven demonstrators--four of them Harvard students--were arrested in all Two paid the fine and two -- John L. Friedman '67 and Raphael D. Sorkin'66--appealed the decision. Suffolk County Superior Court will hear their case time this month...
Nights & Days. Much more than spray guns went into Lawrence's new-look campaign. Braniff was the first U.S. airline to put into operation the relatively small short-run jet aircraft -in Braniff's case the BAC One-Eleven -providing places like Sioux Falls, S. Dak., with commercial jet service for the first time. Needing only a 48% passenger load for Braniff to break even, the 63-seat BAG One-Eleven has averaged 61.1%. In addition, Lawrence put Braniff's four-engine Boeing jets on a new schedule of daytime flying and nighttime maintenance. As a result...