Word: magics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...STOCK. Baker's fortunes began to grow when he first latched onto a 250-share hunk of stock in Milwaukee's Mortgage Guaranty Insurance Corp. (nicknamed "Magic"). He bought the stock before the SEC had registered it, eventually saw a $28,750 investment balloon to about $400,000. Why had Magic's president, Max Karl, catered to Bobby? As Karl later testified, "I was impressed with his title." It would be good for Magic, he added, to have "well-known stockholders," and Baker "knew a lot of people." Baker certainly did, and he touted many of them...
...Magic Savvy. From her first week in law school, the would-be woman lawyer recognizes, in the words of a Columbia alumna, that "she has to do better than the men." "Two girls were eliminated in my class at University of Washington Law, because they just could not bring themselves to argue a rape case," recalls Mary Sanders, who herself has given up practice and is now chief law librarian for the attorney general of California. Another handicap, recalls a male jurist, is that "the men in law school study together, drink coffee together, share their notes, ideas and problems...
...women marrying and having children." But the most frequent excuse is that clients would not have confidence in a woman lawyer. To overcome this, says Mrs. Carolyn Heine, placement director for the University of Southern California Law School, "the woman must have grades, personality, and a little of that magic savvy of women everywhere who can convince men to do what they don't know is good for them...
...Cassius kidding? Nobody knew. Nobody ever knows with Cassius. All anybody knows is that, at 22, Cassius Marcellus Clay's mouth and magic have cornered the world championship and most of $1,000,000-$600,000 from last week's fight alone. There is no telling how much more money Clay can make if he decides to give Sonny Liston a return bout. There is the unsettled matter of his Army service, and there are rumors of a fox in his future. But whatever he does, it will probably turn out right. "I've got a lock...
After the election, cultists believe that they will inherit the white man's magic to make goods materialize without doing any work. To show faith in their belief, some have killed their pigs in sacrificial offering; others have hacked airstrips out of the bush for the planes that will bring in the cargo...