Word: overnighters
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...Nixon urged her husband to burn the Watergate tapes. Muriel Humphrey, who heard secondhand that Hubert had decided to run for President in 1968, sent him a sarcastic telegram: "Let me know if I can be of help." And a woman overnight guest at the L.B.J. ranch was awakened in bed by a familiar drawl, "Move over−this is yore President...
...month the battle between two billion-dollar manufacturing giants raged in boardrooms, courts and newspaper financial columns. Then overnight last week one of the nation's bitterest takeover struggles ended. Otis Elevator Co., the world's leading manufacturer of elevators and escalators, stopped fighting a bid from United Technologies Corp. (formerly United Aircraft), the world's largest builder of aircraft engines, to buy all shares tendered to it by Otis stockholders. By week's end, when the offer expired, United claimed that it had bought more than half of Otis' 8.1 million outstanding common shares...
...than when the discussion turns to the Kennedy Library. Here is a project that makes him wish he was back on the council. "That JFK Library is a real ripoff. We spent over $50 million to make that site available for the library. And then the ENEs came in overnight. They started throwing their spears after we got the green light. They were well-represented, and well financed...
Lowest Level. Evidence of a more liberal policy came last week from the board's actions on so-called Federal Funds-that banks lend to each other overnight. The interest rate on such loans is heavily influenced by the Federal Reserve's purchases or sales of Government securities. The board often uses the Fed Funds rate to signal its intentions on money supply; it will let the rate rise to show a tightening, permit it to fall in order to flash a sign of expansion. At one point last week, the board let the Fed Funds rate fall...
...College assistant coach Bill Campbell, who is in his second year at the helm. Campbell has won but one of eleven games during his stay at Baker Field, but he realizes that when you have to rebuild from the depths of the basement, you don't reach the attic overnight...