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...dollars and control of his father's Hughes Tool Co.. which owned the patent on a conical drill bit that helped open up the oilfields. Hughes married a young Texas aristocrat, Ella Rice, and headed for Hollywood. A gangling Texas prodigy, he broke into moviemaking by producing a flop or two and then, with a combination of gambler's profligacy and an obsessive genius for detail, started turning out hits (Hell's Angels, Scarface, The Outlaw) and stars (Jean Harlow. Pat O'Brien. Jane Russell...
...outlet for this creation, decided that a real-life Harvard tie-in would be just the thing, so they wrote to the President offering to make the premier a Harvard benefit. But the idea of the University affiliating itself with a business venture concerning drugs at Harvard was a flop at Bok's office; and Phillips Brooks House, the Alumni Association, and the Crimson, which also received offers were similarly squeamish...
...rise marks a complete flip-flop in investor psychology from mid-autumn, when prices were being steadily beaten down by a mixture of confusion about the President's economic-controls program and worry about the world monetary crisis. Then Phase II dawned without disaster, the dollar was devalued and the threat of a global trade war was dissipated. Now many market professionals expect a good year...
...Tory M.P.s-thereby making it harder for the Labor Party to impose discipline on its own pro-Marketeers-he assured a majority and also brightened his image in Britain and on the Continent. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson, by contrast, emerged from the long struggle with the derisive nickname "Flip Flop." He had renewed Britain's entry bid in 1967, only to have it again vetoed by De Gaulle. Now, heeding polls over principles, he denounced the terms of entry, though several of his own former Cabinet ministers admitted that his government would have been delighted to accept such terms...
Trying to use it undried to fertilize farms in nearby Kankakee County proved a flop, because sanitation men ran up against a basic American prejudice. Though U.S. farmers have never hesitated to use animal manure, they quailed at the thought of sludge, which is basically purified human manure. Public outcry effectively banned sludge from the county. In desperation, the sanitary district dumped the goo into man-made "lagoons" that it had bulldozed years before into 450 acres of the potentially best industrial land around Chicago...