Word: jannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Graceland and the lengths of the waiting lines there. The leader of the policemen's union had threatened to shut the city down in the contract dispute, but no one on the bus had any second thoughts about going in. As we crossed into Tennessee, Janey's best friend Jan told the bus driver, "Sweetheart, we're going into Memphis no matter what. I didn't come all this way for nothing. I may never come back again...
Resorts' Class A stock rose $13 in four days on the American Exchange, closing at a high of $123.50. That was a 560% increase since Jan. 1. Not bad for a company that has never paid a cash dividend. Resorts will soon split 3 for 1, and it is scarcely the only big winner. Some others, with their rises from April through August: Caesars World, 583%; Playboy, 351%; Bally, 283%; Del Webb, 281%; and Harrah...
...best suited to benefit from the trend toward getting a larger share of profit from refining and marketing. The firm has long concentrated on those areas, to the point that outside the U.S. it buys around 60% of its crude from other companies. Says Shell's European coordinator Jan Choufoer: "Adding value to bought crude is the name of our game...
...Jimmy Carter, Greenspan is not prematurely celebrating any victories for his fellow Republicans. He figures that Democrats, moving with the tide of the people, have shifted fast to the right and co-opted the G.O.P.'s position. But the fellow who is sworn in as President on Jan. 20, 1981-Jimmy or Jerry or Teddy or somebody-will inherit an economy that, Greenspan feels, will rise with a bang...
...Jan. 30, 1976, that Swedish police grabbed Film Director Ingmar Bergman out of Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater to interrogate him about his taxes. Last week, after a victory in the tax courts, Bergman was back directing in the same theater. Earlier, he had celebrated his 60th-birth-day party on the Baltic island of Faro. On hand were his eight children (by four wives plus Liv Ullmann), along with the four children of his fifth wife Ingrid. Bergman gave a smile of a summer night when Linn, his daughter by Ullmann, presented him with a crown of wildflowers...