Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...curls through a land its ancestors helped define. It may not inhabit the terrain much longer. Like the Furbish lousewort and the snail darter, the Southern Crescent is an endangered species. The aging Crescent is the nation's last lavish, privately run, long-haul passenger train. But its owner, the highly profitable and efficient Southern Railway System, claims to have lost $6.7 million last year on the Crescent's Washington-New Orleans...
...prepared the messages that were sent to the government and his family. The raid turned up an IBM typewriter of the kind used in the messages, arms, and Red Brigades leaflets claiming responsibility for the kidnaping of Piero Costa, a Genoa shipping magnate, in 1976. The shop's owner, Enrico Triaca, 30, was arrested along with nine other suspects, whom police were investigating for possible connections to the kidnaping...
...small (pop. 2,200) and Bluegrass (60 miles north of Lexington). Horse country is one place where a kid could grow up small and not develop an inferiority complex. He could imagine himself a jockey. And when his father is a blacksmith and his mother a second-generation owner and a trainer, when he looks forward to celebrating his Derby Week birthday every year at Churchill Downs, the dream doesn't seem so farfetched. If, in addition, he has been sitting on horses since his toddler's legs were long enough to splay across a saddle, he would have...
...always been in the black during the past few years. Affirmed has solved that problem. Some of the Wolfsons' horses are kept in Kentucky, where Louis is respected as a smart and honest man. Says one of Kentucky's leading racing figures: "He went from a leading owner to a jailbird, to a man who couldn't race, to a leading owner - and he never cried. I have a lot of respect for him." Says Editor Kent Hollingsworth of The Blood-Horse: "When he looks at you with those terribly sincere blue eyes, you believe...
...American owner of a high-quality shopping center, hotel or office building can find foreign investors eager to take it off his hands for a top price. The $100 million Atlanta Center office and hotel complex was begun in 1973 with a $10 million participation by Kuwaiti investors; the Kuwaitis have now bought out their American partners. Two weeks ago, a consortium of European banks paid $62.5 million for one-half ownership of Houston's tallest building, a 50-story office tower at One Shell Plaza, and the 29-story Two Shell Plaza...