Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inside the collar were a manufacturer's trademark, a store label and a launderer's stamp. The manufacturer was able to pinpoint a store in Philadelphia where the garment had been sold. The dry cleaner was quickly found; only three blocks away lived the shirt's owner, Joseph Kallinger, 38, a shoe repairman who, with his wife Elizabeth, 40, and their five children occupied a house in the working-class Kensington area of Philadelphia. On the bottom floor of the house was a shoe repair shop that Kallinger owned and operated. True, Kallinger's name...
Consumers were hardly mollified by the tax rebate. Said Jean Patton, a management consultant for Polaroid Corp.: "It seems the President is just taking out of one pocket and putting it in the other." Judy Elliott, a restaurant owner in Hartford, agreed: "There are 10,000 people around here who have had their heat cut off because they can't pay. What good is a tax cut when they can't heat their homes...
...Louis barricaded La Fumade, the Portal family's 30-room mansion, shortly before the death of his father Baron Leonce in 1973, and refused to relinquish it to the farmer who bought it at a debt auction. After Portal shot and wounded two workers sent by the new owner to plow the land, 70 gendarmes assaulted La Fumade, braving fire from the young baron's elephant gun and mortally wounding him. The body of the father, which the family had kept in a coffin in the main hall, was taken to a cemetery; the baroness and her daughter...
...equipment, once regarded as throwaway junk, is now attracting premium prices. New drilling pipe sells for $10.50 per ft. when available; when it is not, wildcatters often settle for used pipe supplied by oilfield hustlers at $20 per ft. "They charge an arm and a leg," complains Walter Bates, owner of a well-service firm in Odessa, Texas. "But I'm happy to pay any price to get the equipment I need." Sometimes, the equipment is not only high-priced but hot as well. Says Sheriff Elwood Hill of Odessa: "They are stealing just about everything...
...regular rates, which run into the hundreds rather than the thousands." The same week Jackie reaped $3,000 from the sale at a Manhattan auction house of some old furniture, including President Kennedy's chair from Choate School and John Jr.'s discarded desk. When the gallery owner went to select the furniture for the sale, he rejected several pieces. Disappointed, Jackie said: "I wish you'd take more. What's left I'm going to give to the thrift shop...