Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sophomores Clive Kileff and Dave Benjamin won the Crimson's only title, winning a tournament for the number three doubles team from each college. They won over an Army team in the final after beating Hugh Lynch and Lee Rawls of Princeton in the Semifinals...
...first," outed Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, "the American press tried to lynch me. Now they want to hear everything the corpse says." The corpse said plenty. Though she was officially visiting Belgrade as head of her country's delegation to an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference, South Viet Nam's éminence brune announced cheerfully that the real aim of her travels was to "disperse all misunderstandings " about her country and the regime headed by her brother-in-law, Ngo Dinh Diem. Sounding like St. Joan in a slit skirt, Viet Nam's fiery First Lady announced that...
...Merrill Lynch has been an innovator ever since Charles Merrill wove it together from four smaller houses in 1941. It helped in the long campaign to regain the public's trust in the financial community by putting its salesmen on flat salaries, eliminating carrying charges on accounts, and pioneering in informative advertising. When Mike McCarthy, a former grocery-chain consultant, took over as managing partner in 1957, he found the firm's old partnership setup as unwieldy as its name. He revamped Merrill Lynch into an incorporated brokerage house whose stock is now divided among 419 shareholders...
...sell shares to the public, Merrill Lynch must first persuade the Stock Exchange to change its longstanding rule that every holder of brokerage-firm stock must first be approved by the exchange; the rule would obviously make the public sale and free trading of its stock impossible. McCarthy concedes that this approval may take years; the exchange is slow to change and is, after all, controlled by many of the insiders who prefer to keep Wall Street a club. But the Midwest Stock Exchange already has opened the way for public ownership, and Merrill Lynch feels that the Securities...
Some keener competition is abuilding for Merrill Lynch. Francis I. du Pont, Wall Street's fastest growing brokerage house (92 branches), last week announced plans to acquire Chicago's A. C. Allyn & Co. (24 branches). The du Pont firm was set up in 1931 by Francis du Pont, a great-grandson of Eleuthère Iréneé du Pont, founder of the Du Pont chemical empire, and grew big by catering to Wilmington's richest carriage trade. Now headed by Francis' son, Edmond du Pont, 57, the firm long ago broadened its sights beyond...