Word: paid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shakespeare paid insufficient attention to King Alonso and his five lordly cronies--"that dismal sextet," Agate called them. The actors can do little but go through their plot-serving paces, though someone should have kept Theodore Sorel from going way out of vocal control in Alonso's "billows" speech. As old Gonzalo (a weak retread of Polonius in Hamlet), Daniel Benzali gets an unintended laugh from today's fuel-conscious audience when he outlines his ideal commonwealth as having "no use of...oil." And it is a nice touch, at the end of the play...
...head of the council finance committee, Troy challenged Mayor Abe Beame's proposed budget. The mayor counterattacked by ousting him from his party post in Queens. On the same day, Sept. 19, 1974, federal investigators paid Troy a call, bringing along a request for his tax records. He was subsequently charged with, and pleaded guilty to, filing false income tax returns and withdrawing money from estates he managed as an attorney...
...Eleanor Smeal, 39, took charge of the National Organization for Women (NOW) in 1977, doubled the membership to 100,000 and raised dues and contributions from $700,000 annually to $2.6 million. The first housewife to head NOW, as well as its first full-time paid president, Smeal is a native of Erie, Pa., and a Phi Beta Kappa from Duke University. She discovered feminism
...town, Embry created the Urban Development Action Grant program that is helping to save 327 distressed urban areas by encouraging private investment. To qualify for UDAG, a mayor must prove that his proposal has local business support and will create jobs. In the past two years, HUD has paid out $700 million in seed money that in turn has generated an investment of $4.1 billion in private funds. An unflappable official, the Baltimore born and bred Embry plans to return to local government after HUD. Says he: "The oldest cities may be the newest frontier...
...merger bid is approved, it has enough stock to take immediate control of the company without having to negotiate with other shareholders. Despite its majority holdings, Pan Am, which paid $42 a share, or about $186 million, for the stock, does not control National. Under a CAB dictate, all the contenders must hold their National shares in a nonvoting trust. In addition, Pan Am still has several important hurdles to clear. For example, the CAB must still give Pan Am approval after consulting with the Justice Department about whether the merger violates antitrust laws. Finally, the merger decision must...