Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Merchant Seaman Thomas D. Dailey was whooping it up in a New Orleans saloon when he fell off a barstool and broke his leg. Whom did he sue? The saloon? The distiller whose spirits decked him? Not Seaman Dailey. He sued the owner of his ship, which was tied up 3½ miles from the scene of his accident...
...maroon Rolls-Royce purred through the rainy evening to the London Clinic, and out stepped Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 38. She had come to end a 28-year estrangement between the royal family and the owner of a grey Rolls parked opposite: the Duchess of Windsor, 68. In a fourth-floor sitting room, the two women, both dressed in properly cheerful red, met by the chair of Edward, Duke of Windsor, 70, sitting up for the first time in three weeks after a series of eye operations. What was said in 25 minutes-at the first meeting since Edward...
...owner of the cafe defended the Movement, maintaining that it was immoral to fight back and impractical to reason with poor whites. A highly sophisticated debate followed--but it was more than words. Both men knew that the next day SNCC would once again summon the Negro community to march nonviolently on the state capitol. Similar discussions were going on throughout the ghetto; for the Movement is the central fact in the life and thought of every Montgomery Negro, whether or not he considers himself in the Movement...
...still 7⅛." But there was a little something extra special about this uniform. Last year, with his job hanging in the balance, Keane led the St. Louis Cardinals to the National League pennant and a thrilling World Series victory over the New York Yankees. Then he marched into Owner Gussie Busch's office when it was all over and told him where to put the $35,000 contract Gussie belatedly offered to renew. Now Johnny is getting $45,000 to boss the Yanks, and he stands a good chance of becoming the first manager in baseball history...
Splitting the Proceeds. Aniline's Swiss owner, a holding company called Inter-handel, will net $121 million from the sale because of former Attorney General Robert Kennedy's controversial decision to settle its ownership claims out of court by splitting the proceeds. The Government's $208 million will go into a war-claims fund to pay U.S. citizens for property and (in some cases) relatives lost during World War II. As for the anxious new investors, they hope to profit by the improvement in General Aniline's prospects already begun under research-minded President Dr. Jesse...