Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...They didn't keep the time right," said Owner Lamar Hunt of the Kansas City Chiefs. "The first half didn't run long enough, and the second half ran too long." Looking back, it is easy to understand why Hunt wished he had been manning the stop watch at last week's Super Bowl game between the A.F.L. champion Chiefs and the N.F.L. champion Green Bay Packers...
...been held that the skier assumes certain obvious risks when he starts down a slope. If he is unfortunate enough to run smack into a stump or a buried fence, it is usually considered not to be the fault of the stump or the stump's owners. Conversely, when a skier is heading uphill on a lift, the lift owner is usually liable for any injury suffered because of mechanical collapse or breakdown unless the injured party was guilty of contributory negligence such as, say, bouncing around in the seat or leaning out to ogle a passing ski bunny...
...about that time Gardner told Brother Louis, a motel resort owner in Carmel Valley, Calif., that he was "tapering off." But Johnson, who admired his work on the education bill, had other ideas, asked him to join the Cabinet. There was an immense gulf between running Carnegie's 35-member staff and HEW's army of 100,000, but, as Gardner puts it, "it is exceedingly difficult to say no when the President asks something of you of that magnitude." Besides, it was time for a change...
...United States has begun denying travel visas to Czechoslovakian citizens in retaliation for the Czech government's detention of naturalized U.S. citizen Vladimir J. Kazan-Komarek, owner of the Harvard Travel Service...
...murder trial. For that matter, a great deal of the murky world of Jack Ruby was obscured in hearsay and uncertainty. The Warren Commission unleashed an army of investigators to dredge up the facts about Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth...