Word: omaha
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...outcome of the GBL race will not affect Harvard's chances for a trip to Omaha. In order to qualify, the Crimson must win the Eastern League. Dartmouth has a game advantage in the loss column, and can clinch the championship this weekend with a sweep over Yale and Brown. In order to keep its hopes alive. Harvard must beat Brown on Friday and then take a doubleheader from Yale on Saturday. If Dartmouth should lose a game, the championship will be decided in a make-up game between Harvard and Princeton, which will probably be played on Sunday...
...play's South London milieu. And he also does well to guide them through a maze of scene changes and a dense fog of Pinteresque dialogue. But he nonetheless fails to shape the evening into dramatic highs and lows. The terrain the production travels is as flat as Omaha...
...Omaha...
Boys Town is land rich too. Its campus is on 1,300 acres, now estimated to be worth $8,000,000. Near by it owns another 120 acres, plus an office building in downtown Omaha; in Iowa it owns a summer camp; in Wyoming some ranch land. Boys Town ended 1970 with total assets of roughly $192 million. If it were an industrial corporation, these assets would rank it 372 on FORTUNE'S list...
Human Error. Until recently, it was impossible to get the figures that tell the rags-to-riches story. But the Tax Reform Act of 1969 required tax-exempt Boys Town to file a public statement of financial position for the first time. Warren Buffett, 41, owner of seven Omaha weekly newspapers that have already won two national awards, last week seized the opportunity to publish the first expose of Boys Town's finances; a six-man team headed by Editor Paul Williams had worked on the project since November. Buffett, a Protestant and self-made millionaire who until...