Word: owners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...during the 1973-75 recession. Overall U.S. apartment building is down 60% from 1972, to 415,000 units, nowhere near the 1 million apartments experts say are needed. Developers' costs for land, labor and maintenance have gone up far faster than rents. Result: apartments are being converted into owner-occupied condominiums, thus removing them from the rental market, or condominiums are being built and sold at high prices to realize a quick return on investment. Says Howard Ruby, chairman of R. & B. Development Co. in Los Angeles: "Rents are still too low." Daniel Packard, an executive with Mayer Construction...
...dancing becomes so serious that it can make or break my psyche, then it's no more fun." He literally stumbled into ballet. Coaxed by a third-grade classmate into a tap class, he found he could not keep his balance; his father, a Vermont meat-packing company owner, suggested that he try ballet as a remedy. Even after achieving success in showpieces like Balanchine's Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, McKenzie is modest: "If I had to compare myself to Baryshnikov, I'd give up and take up carpentry." But not too modest. His aim? "To become...
...president of Standard Oil of California, a part-owner of Caltex, is also a member of the Stanford board of trustees, SCRIP members said...
...Vidor, "Gilda" is the best of the "film noir" style that emphasized the dark side of the American character in the climate of national disillusionment following World War II. The film features Glenn Ford, Rita Hayworth and an actor whose name I always forget, who plays a Rio casino owner-cum-international tungsten cartel boss. It revolves around two sinister triangles: one, a quasi-homosexual link between the tungsten boss, the boss's sword-cane, and Glenn Ford (the other, between Rita Hayworth, the tungsten boss (who marries her), and Ford (who has had a bitter affair with...
...reputation, as well as her health, was ailing. Not only was her name being splashed luridly and critically across the headlines of British tabloids, but her government allowance was also under attack, as a result of a flamboyant four-year relationship with Roderick (Roddy) Llewellyn, 30, a sometime disco owner, occasional landscape gardener, and would-be pop singer...