Word: options
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Certificates were authorized by the General Court last year and are available locally from the Cambridge License Bureau in City Hall. Liquor stores still have the option of requesting proof of age but, as in the past, they risk a $500 fine and the possible loss of their license by serving minors...
...Originally, the U.S. had the option of evacuating American citizens with a few hundred soldiers and then withdrawing. What Johnson has done already precludes this possibility, since the presence of U.S. soldiers firing on the revolutionaries has given the leadership of the revolution to the Communists. Withdrawing now would give them the entire republic, something neither the OAS nor the U.S. desires. Now Johnson should urge the OAS to use the leverage of this military force to create a provisional government under Juan Bosch, until OAS-supervised elections such as those of 1963 can be held...
What a liftoff! When he quit the Marines and hitched up with the Royal Crown Cola Co. as a director last October, Colonel John H. Glenn Jr., 43, the West's first man in space, got an option on 60,000 of the company's shares at $19.81 each. Since R.C.C. shares are now orbiting above $24, Glenn's paper profits have already soared over the $250,000 mark. If the company's earnings keep climbing, Cola should land the astronaut safely on millionaire...
...cock, Bachlongvi Island, only 80 miles from Red China's heavily fortified Hainan Island. For the first time, U.S. pilots were allowed to seek out targets of opportunity instead of limiting their attacks to targets chosen in Washington. They were quick to exercise their new option. In one raid, eight F-105 Thunderchiefs found a break in the clouds over a radar site at Vinhson, swooped down to destroy it, then turned to sink three armed junks nearby...
...auctioning, Chance had never faced such confusion. However, Christie's catalogue for the sale clearly stated, "if any dispute arises between two or more Bidders, the Lot so in dispute shall be immediately put up again and re-sold." As bedlam took over, Chance declared: "I have no option but to reopen the bidding." In a matter of seconds, with Marlborough no longer interested, Rembrandt's Titus became Simon's. The price: $2,234,400, a bare $64,000 below...