Word: omega
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money, the lifeblood of any mutual fund, Mates was unusually vulnerable to a crisis. That came two weeks ago, when the SEC halted trading of a lively over-the-counter stock that had been one of Mates' big winners. The SEC cited "possibly misleading" information about the stock-Omega Equities Corp.-which had been bid up from 40? a share in January to $35 in November. It last traded at $25, which means that the 300,000 shares that Mates had bought in July for just under $1,000,000 now account for about 15% of his fund...
...long been quietly investigating Omega. It is a reincarnation of a New York-based company that all but dropped out of sight years ago, when it operated in real estate under the name of J. M. Tenney Corp. After the firm reappeared in 1967 with its new name, stories about Omega as an "entertainment-field" conglomerate began turning up in the financial pages. According to one tale, it was about to take over 20th Century-Fox. Word of the SEC's investigation of Omega got out to a few well-informed investors, who quickly turned in their Mates Fund...
...altar, Temple Drake appears terribly innocent and vulnerable and cute. Her soft blue eyes have been full of a lot of tears lately, but she can buck up and give a big smile if she sees some friendly Notre Dame Resistance workers or a priest with an Omega button or a reporter with a note...
...Negro fraternities. After fighting to get white frats to drop discriminatory practices, Columbia administrators find that some Negroes do not consider fraternity life with whites worth bothering about. "They just sit around and drink beer and exchange old exams," complains Marvin Kelly, a member of the new Omega Psi Phi Negro fraternity. "Negro social culture is much more sophisticated," argues Thompkins. A Northwestern Negro explains more simply that "instead of trying to buck the tide, we thought we would take a shot at going...
...Step. Study of the southern heavens will provide checkpoints on what scientists have learned in the past several years about X-ray sources in space. It will also yield some of the secrets of spectacular globular star clusters like Omega Centauri, 15,000 light-years from earth. The brightest clusters, including those nearest the earth, can be found only in the southern sky. Since the clusters are believed to contain some of the oldest stars in the Milky Way, they may provide invaluable knowledge regarding the age of the universe...