Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other chief of state south of the border has been under sharper attack from the extremes of left and right or fought them all off more courageously. From the moment Betancourt was elected to office in 1958 after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez, the Communists and a gaggle of the discontented have done their best to topple his government. In the economic fallout that came after the corrupt dictatorship's fall, there were many grievances to exploit; Communist-fired mobs roamed the capital; Communist gunmen murdered policemen, started backland guerrilla uprisings, even infiltrated...
...Hawks win, it will be their initial first-place finish since they entered the league 37 years ago. They once were the doves of the N.H.L., so timid that from 1947 to 1958 their only excursion outside the cellar was fourth place in 1953. At last. Owner Jim Norris took a gamble that few fans thought would work. As the club's 22nd coach, he chose a tall, bush-browed, front-office man named Rudy Pilous, who had no professional coaching experience...
Shell homes were launched 17 years ago by an enterprising young truck driver named Jim Walter, who went into busi ness with $600 borrowed from his father. The idea had great appeal to returning servicemen, who did not yet have it made and were handy with their hands. By 1961, shell firms accounted for 8% of the one-family housing market and had be come one of Wall Street's bets on the future. But fast-buck builders swarmed in, competition stiffened, and many firms began putting up frames with little regard for quality or adequate financing...
Desire to Dethrone. The two big survivors of the top ten are both Southern: the redoubtable Jim Walter Corp. of Tampa, Fla., and Modern Homes Construction Co. of Valdosta, Ga. Unlike other firms, whose skimpy financing forced them to rely on high interest mortgage money, Walter and Modern Homes carefully, developed lines of credit that enabled them to do their own financing. An affable, smooth-talking Floridian who is a wealthy man at 40, Walter carefully built up his company until it now has 150 branch offices and is the second larg est homebuilder (after National Homes Corp.), with sales...
...other squash action, Harvard's "Red team" (Niederhoffer, Morris, Walter, Thorndike, and Terrell) is certain to win the Massachusetts Squash Racquets Association league title. Ben Heckscher '57 and Jim Zug of the Business School head the two Harvard Club of Boston teams in the league...