Word: hughe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three days, as the garbage festered, Mayor Abraham Beame quickened his shuttle negotiations with Albany, trying to find a new accommodation for the city. The task was considerably complicated by Beame's being caught in a political crossfire between Democratic Governor Hugh Carey and State Senate Republican Leader Warren Anderson, who tied any increase in state aid and taxing power to increased school aid for his suburban constituency...
...capital of easy living, Los Angeles. Personal bankruptcies rose by more than 18% in the L.A. area last year, and they are already up another 48% in 1975. So it is no real surprise that the busiest bankruptcy lawyer in the nation is headquartered in Los Angeles. He is Hugh Slate, 58, of Slate & Leoni, which handles one in about every four bankruptcy cases filed in the Los Angeles area (a total of 11,451 last year). Slate & Leoni handles five times as many such cases as any other law firm in the country. "People once thought bankruptcy was just...
According to Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, a senior British intelligence officer during World War II, Winston Churchill issued a directive forbidding his intelligence agencies to get involved in assassination plots against Hitler and Mussolini. Churchill is thought to have feared such attempts would be counter-productive and certain to provoke reprisals of the kind the Nazis visited on Lidice...
...FINANCIAL FIX. For almost a month, city and state officials and a handful of private citizens chosen by Governor Hugh Carey had wrestled with New York's deepening financial dilemma (TIME, June 16). The city's profligate borrowing had wiped out the national market for its securities: no more notes could be issued until the city started putting its finances in order. That meant the kind of retrenchment that Mayor Abe Beame and other city Democrats find painful to contemplate. For a while, they and the Republicans controlling the state senate could not seem to face...
...content to duel Hugh Hefner on the newsstands, Penthouse Publisher Bob Guccione seems determined to outdo the Playboy prince in the real estate department too. Guccione has paid more than $1 million in cash for the 40-room Manhattan mansion that once belonged to Financier Jeremiah Milbank, and he is preparing to spend another $1 million or so to have it "all redone in Italian Renaissance, very classical and simple." Besides a Roman-bath swimming pool and quarters for nine live-in servants, Guccione's digs will also feature accommodations for visiting Penthouse pets, but with some differences from...