Word: hughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Oilmen insist that all the profits of decontrol, not just some of them, are urgently needed to finance the search for crude. Asks Hugh Liedtke, chairman of Pennzoil Co.: "Are we to raise more tax money or raise more oil?" But some of the biggest firms are swinging around to an emotional accommodation with the idea of a tax, so long as it is phased out in a couple of years. What they want is a temporary levy with a so-called plow-back provision. Under it, companies would be able to reduce their windfall profits taxes each year...
...Hugh Stevenson--clarinet recital, works by Mozart, Bruch, Stravinsky, Homes Dining Room, North House...
...with hardly a second thought, Brown last week arrived in foggy, rainy New England, only to find the political weather stormier still. The Republicans, who control the state house of representatives, had stacked the public hearing so that opponents, including Democratic Governor Hugh Gallen, would not be recognized until late in the evening...
...Hugh Carella, executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Older People, said yesterday, "We fight like hell to prevent our people from paying for this disaster...
Last week, after lunching with Cohn and Benson Ford, New York Times Columnist William Safire wrote a savory story. He reported that New York Governor Hugh Carey, the longtime suitor of Ford's daughter Anne, had prevailed on Frank Sinatra to meet with Ford. Safire speculated broadly that Ford hoped that Sinatra's gangland contacts would get to Cohn's underworld law clients and persuade the lawyer to lay off. The column raised such a furor that Safire rather grudgingly wrote another piece reporting the many disclaimers...