Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stem's sense of the odds has made Ladbroke's the leader of Britain's $3billion-a-year legalized bookmaking business. Founded at the turn of the century and long famed as the "bookmaker to the Establishment," the snobbish West End-based firm had all but faded away along with its blueblooded patrons when Stein's uncle bought the entire outfit in 1956 for a paltry $700,000. The son of a prosperous London horse-parlor and turf-news-service operator, Stein himself became Ladbroke's top man in 1958 at age 30. Last year...
Miss Gill claims that L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, promised that the actual operators of the building could run it as they had in the past. But last July, the building's operator--the R.N. Bradley real estate firm--began requiring new tenants to put up security rent. This bond is equal to one month's rent to assure that the tenants would not damage their rooms...
Henry H. Cutler '29, the University's manager for taxes, insurance, and real estate, said yesterday that the security rent practice was begun at the suggestion of the R.N. Bradley firm. The practice was common, he noted, in all buildings which had a history of hard usage and high turnover in tenants...
...Kevin H. White, and 20,000 ahead of state Rep. John W. Sears. In a phone-cluttered City Club office reached by crawling into a fireplace hearth, lifting a trapdoor, and climbing down some stairs, one of Mrs. Hicks' campaign strategists snorted, "We aren't amateurs here." He predicted firm victory in November...
...letter, dated September 25, concluded by asking Harvard for a 'firm, formal and unmistakable definition of the University's position to Colonel Pell and a vigilant, consistent application of restraints on Army ROTC to guarantee that Harvard students will not again be subjected to the improper and irregular practices from which we have suffered...