Word: lynching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Indeed, Mike Lynch's last-minute field goal at the Yale Bowl in '75, a three-pointer which gave Harvard its first, last and only undisputed Ivy football title, seems the final link to a different age, one that never would have permitted Crimson losses to Columbia and Cornell within a month and would have been aghast at the thought that even a victory this afternoon can produce at best a fourth-place finish in the league...
...Patricia Lynch, a producer for NBC, filmed a report on Synanon activities that was aired last June. Later, she says, two men with close-cropped hair and carrying tape recorders and cameras turned up at her Manhattan apartment building, asking tenants about her habits and the layout of her apartment. Since then, she has been shadowed by two men with shaved heads who told her they were from the Synanon Committee for Responsible American Media (SCRAM). She quotes one of them as saying: "The goal of SCRAM is to get your life...
South African investments were the lynch pin, the growth point of his global empire. "American and European millions are cigarette money to Engelhard's operation; the real money comes from South Africa," Paul Jacobs wrote for Ramparts magazine in 1966. It is difficult to know exactly how large the Engelhard family's interests in South Africa were and continue to be. Charles Engelhard was a master of the secret stock deal, the creation of the paper corporation. He owned companies that were subsidiaries of subsidiaries of subsidiaries. Through a wide range of company chairmanships and directorships, and minority and majority...
...Merrill Lynch, eat your heart...
...worried by the jumpiness of the stocks, the New York and American exchanges had been reluctant to do anything that might spoil the action that is profitably increasing volume and enticing people into the market. But the speculation turned even wilder last month after a bullish report by Merrill Lynch cited the gambling industry's "potential to be one of the high growth segments of the economy during the next five years...