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Councilor Charles A. Watson called Vellucci's original proposal a "bad idea." He argued, "Not even the state let alone the city can take land away from an educational institution whose corporate franchise is as old as Harvard's."
Fighting bravely to retain their franchise, the moviemakers-in the person of a top M-G-M costume designer-had provided suitable wedding costumes, but everywhere the actors in the play were forgetting their lines and ad-libbing with dire results. Europe's reigning royalty, to a man, refused...
Two giants of the oil business squared off last week for a fight to dominate Canada's natural gas industry. In one corner was Clint Murchison, the flamboyant Texas oil tycoon (TIME, May 24, 1954) who bosses an empire of companies with assets of about $400 million. Against him...
McMahon's challenge took Murchison by surprise. The Texan's company, Trans-Canada Pipe Lines, Ltd., has held the pipeline franchise for almost two years, and Clint Murchison once grandly declared that the building of it would be "the major achievement of my life." But Murchison had trouble...
The U.S. Senate reacted to the gas bill uproar by heading full steam toward an investigation of lobbying activity that will probably run through the summer and cost half a million dollars. Most likely to conduct the hearings: Tennessee's Democrat Albert Gore, chairman of the Privileges and Elections...