Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...games remain. Cornell and Rutgers play in Ithaca and this should be about the best game in the country. Rutgers upset Princeton and promises to make a hard run at the Big Red. But most experts (and guessers) expect the Cornell defense to hold firm for a slender 9-6 decision...
Syndicate Specialist. A Manhattan-born Quaker, Helmsley grew up in The Bronx, joined the firm he now heads after leaving high school at 16. Rising from office boy to rent collector to building manager to broker, he performed so well that his name went on the company's title before he was 30. Later, as a specialist in syndicate purchasing, Helmsley joined with Lawrence Wien, a Manhattan lawyer and investor, and began putting together his realty domain. The Empire State Building, which they bought in 1961 for $65 million, is the crown jewel, but their widespread holdings include shopping...
...involving routes, possible surcharges for supersonic-transport tickets and ways to meet growing competition from non-IATA charter airlines. The outcome of the major issue-fares-remains unsettled, but the U.S. lines are given little chance of winning their long-sought reductions. Other carriers, complaining of higher costs, are firm for the status...
...fields other than copying." On the other hand, though C.I.T. denies any plans to scale down its auto-financing operations, it can hardly ignore the attempts of competitors to profit from computers and other business machines. For example, Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co., another leading finance firm, recently merged with Control Data Corp., a large computer manufacturer...
...Straus family, which has run the firm founded by Rowland Hussey Macy, a onetime Yankee whaler, since 1888, bought it out in 1896 and still has effective control with only 5% of the company's stock...