Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Eliott returned home to Chicago to run the family business; to maintain his status in the community, he married. It lasted five months. After the divorce he married again, this time for two years: "She began to notice that I didn't enjoy sex, and that finally broke it up. I don't think she knows even today that I am a homosexual...
...already spread into hotels (Sheraton), car renting (Avis), home building (Levitt & Sons), book publishing (Bobbs-Merrill) and bread (Continental Baking). Why would this aggressive giant want slow-moving Hartford Fire? One likely reason is that the insurance company has a valuable portfolio of securities that might be used to produce handsome capital gains for the merged companies...
...auto plant in Iran; they are also affiliated in Argentina, where AMC uses Jeep engines, and in Mexico, where Jeep buys its engines from American. American will take over Kaiser's auto plants in 34 countries, acquire a new line for its 2,400 dealers at home, and likely gain much-needed recruits among Jeep's 1,600 dealers, some of whom will switch to AMC. American also inherits Jeep's substantial Government business, which amounted to 62% of its sales of $477 million last year, and a $190 million Jeep contract to build Army trucks, which...
Another executive was recently shifted from Manhattan to Chicago. When he put his suburban New York home up for sale, one eager would-be buyer offered him $500 to be first to bid on it. He sold the house for a large profit. The disillusionment set in after he moved to Chicago and sought a house in the suburbs. "I had to pay much more for less house," he complains...
...Nixon Administration has tried to cushion housing from the impact of tight money. The Federal Home Loan Bank Board has lent nearly $4 billion to savings and loan associations. The Federal National Mortgage Association, which is privately owned but Government-controlled, has become the principal source of funds for Federal Housing Administration and Veterans Administration loans. But money is so scarce that average private mortgage rates have risen from 6.4% two years ago to 8.1% now. Many borrowers must pay 81% or even 9%. Though the rates may fall a bit next year, they will probably stay high by historical...