Word: offere
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sticking Points. If there was one dividend to be found in last week's crisis, it was the fresh sense of urgency imparted to big-power efforts toward a settlement. Russian diplomats in Washington, Paris and London began pressing for an agreement that could be offered to both sides with big-power endorsement. In a week of intensive conversations, there were hints of a new Soviet willingness to search for accommodation on such sticking points as demarcation of boundaries, free navigation, demilitarized zones and international guarantees. Some close observers detected an emerging package offer...
Consider New York Mayor John Lindsay's reply to the students of Rough Rock School on the Navajo Reservation in Arizona. The youngsters had written a letter offering to take Manhattan Island off his hands for $24 worth of trinkets and beads. Replied His Honor, with equal seriousness: "Your offer falls far short of the current value of Manhattan Island-which has become the East Coast's answer to your own Monument Valley. Our unanimous judgment is that because of the enormous growth in building and population on Manhattan since 1623, combined with the creation of a modern...
...Lancaster, Ohio, barber, Kern was a high school star in football and basketball and was persuaded to at tend Ohio State with the offer of being allowed to play both sports. In the Rose Bowl, his ball handling was superb. Play after play, his fakes fooled NBC television cameramen so badly that they lost the action entirely. A 69-yd. Ohio State drive ended with Fullback Jim Otis scoring from the one; a 50-yd. drive to the Trojan 10 enabled Kicker Jim Roman to make good on a 26-yd. field goal with three seconds left...
...former head of West Coast and a generous contributor to the Democratic Party in Washington State, spoke for Hughes. Lined up against him were Vice Chairman Edmund Converse, for mer head of Bonanza, and President G. Robert Henry. They insisted that Air West has enormous potential and that the offer, made through the Hughes Tool Co., was far too low. Says Henry: "We're spread over the richest and most progressive part of the country. You couldn't have a better territory." In deed, since the merger Air West has increased its routes by more than one-third...
...anti-Hughes forces were relieved when Mallory Randall Corp., a Brooklyn-based manufacturer of plastic containers, stepped forward with an alternative bid, offering to swap shares worth some $109 million. Then, only seven days before the Hughes offer ran out on Dec. 31, Northwest Airlines made an attractive stock-swap proposal. Air West's routes would tie in perfectly with Northwest's, Henry argued...