Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...asked where she could get medical aid. He was told that a health center about four miles away was the only place where medicine could be obtained. Inspecting a relatively comfortable hut, Shriver remarked: "This guy is really well off." He was quietly informed that the hut's owner sustained himself and his family by working as a taxi driver in Bombay, some 800 miles from home...
...another cause. With his political future-and a possible third term-already clouded over by a canyon-sized Democratic split between Tammany Hall and Manhattan reformers, Wagner was grimly aware that Republican Governor Nelson Rockefeller's State Investigation Commission was pawing over his old friendship with George Sanders, owner of a sightseeing ship line that operates from a city pier. One commission finding: Sanders paid "several hundred dollars" for Wagner's hotel suite political headquarters at the Democratic Convention in Los Angeles last July. Outraged, Wagner denied that he had ever done any favors for Sanders (whose lease...
...weak to run or even walk to their neighborhood stores, but presumably viewers bite hard on the products hawked; stations have signed up avidly since Debbie's program was syndicated in September. Not long ago, Debbie, the divorced mother of a twelve-year-old boy, was part owner of a chain of unsuccessful reducing parlors and sole proprietor of a thoroughly successful figure (she says she had "a figure problem" once, after her son was born, but cured it with disciplined self-torture). She persuaded WHIO-TV in Dayton to pay her $20 each for a weekly antiflab ballet...
Losses. The Re operations often caused the stock to slump, and many a celebrity was reportedly victimized, including Restaurant Owner Toots Shor, Milwaukee Braves Manager Chuck Dressen and Vincent F. Albano Jr., Republican leader of Manhattan's East Side. Even Exchange President Edward T. McCormick turned up in the investigation as a onetime Re customer who spent $1,800 for over-the-counter stocks (which they were not licensed to sell...
...City, Calif., who ran a square game with free champagne for all, made men remove their hats when gambling, and forbade them to brawl or use naughty language; and Richard Albert Canfield, the biggest single gambler of them all, who rose from a $2-a-week shipping clerk to owner of the Saratoga Club, one of the world's biggest and most lavish gambling houses, became a top collector of Whistler paintings (including a portrait of Canfield that Whistler called His Reverence...