Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until the 21 yard play, Brown had dominated, running 53 plays to Harvard's 31. The Bruins sustained two titanic drives, both of which crumpled deep in Harvard territory as the Crimson's goal line stand crew led by Captain Don Chiofaro and Joe deBettencourt, held firm...
Others besides Fiat are trying to sell them what they want. Common Market tariff reductions have brought increasing competition from abroad, and now Fiat, for the first time, is about to be challenged by an Italian firm. State-owned Alfa Romeo, which has decided to produce low-priced, medium-sized cars, is building a plant called Alfa Sud near Naples; it expects to turn out 300,000 cars annually...
...allotted to his wife, his three children and his business. It was only natural that just before leaving school, he drew up a list of cities in which he might like to practice corporate law. Detroit was low on the list because its "environment" was poor. But its law firms were first-rate, and eventually Parsons managed to convince himself that Detroit was his city. He joined a firm there that put him to work on the affairs of its biggest client, the Detroit Bank & Trust...
...when Parsons set out to establish his own law firm in Birmingham, he had already seen enough of Detroit banking to decide that it was too conservative. By drawing on his own inheritance from a grandfather and tapping friends, Parsons got together $650,000 and mounted a challenge to Detroit bankers within their own 25mile limit. In a small Birmingham office building, he founded the Birmingham-Bloomfield Bank. It may not have looked like much, but it had Saturday banking for suburbanites, lower charges on checking accounts, and it paid 3% on savings rather than the general...
Died. James E. Day, 62, president of the Midwest Stock Exchange; of a heart attack; in Chicago. Founder and boss of his own highly successful securities firm, Day took over Chicago's floundering stock exchange in 1946, within a few years had combined with three other Midwestern stock exchanges to create the nation's biggest market outside of Wall Street...