Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work clearing away underbrush and Setting up gravestones. Suddenly they were swept by an impulse for revenge. Unable to take reprisals against the absent Colonel Kim, they marched to the house of Park Yung Bo, who had been mayor in Colonel Kim's time, and as the owner of a rice-winery was still the town's richest man. Dragging Park out of bed. they accused him of informing to Kim, of embezzling government funds belatedly sent from Seoul for funeral expenses for Kim's victims. First they stoned him, then beat him with clubs. When...
...ELVIS embroidered on the back and a small Presley hat decorated with the hero's picture-all these festooned a fat, balding, cigar-smoking man in a four-room executive suite on the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Thomas Andrew ("Colonel") Parker, 49, is the discoverer, manager and part owner of Elvis Presley; although he tries very hard to look every inch a rube, he is known on all horizons of show business as the shrewdest pitchman who ever came out of a small-time carny into the big time...
Better Luck Next Time. In Hong Kong, while walking down a hall to his apartment, Law Kun-suk tore a pair of panties from an overhead line because it is supposed to be bad luck to walk under them, was clouted over the head by the irate owner, next day received a six-week jail sentence for property destruction...
With Venetian Way a 6-1 choice, Owner Isaac Blumberg, 72, a retired Illinois machine-tool manufacturer, nursed a double bourbon and pessimistically recalled 1958 when his Lincoln Road finished second to Tim Tam in both the Derby and the Preakness. Down in the paddock, Trainer Vic Sovinski gave Hartack instructions: "You ought to be third or fourth going into the clubhouse turn, but lay back until the backstretch. Then go when you see your spot...
...Beach the trouble was grand facades with rickety financing. Many of the hotels in trouble were built by speculators during the heady postwar period, and were so profitable for a time that they were easily sold for high prices. To get a mortgage on such overvalued properties, some new owners had to pay up to 25% in interest and fees on five-year mortgages. Saddled by such costs, one set of owners after another has gone broke in the midst of splendor. As each new owner takes out another mortgage, some hotels have been burdened with half a dozen...