Word: quirks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunset International Petroleum Corp. is a lively, California-based oil company which operates wells in eight states, and has ambitions to grow bigger fast-thanks to a quirk in the tax laws. Sunset, headed by Morton A. Sterling, 34, last week was branching out into the real estate business. It purchased Tavares Development Co., a huge. San Diego real estate firm that helped build the state of Washington's Chief Joseph Dam, Los Angeles' $20 million Hyperion sewage system, has built nearly 15% of all San Diego residences, and is currently developing suburban San Carlos...
...factor against McNamara, as well as against former Mayors Edward A. Crane '38, Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '29, and John D. Lynch, is the long-standing Cambridge tradition to pass the Mayor's position around the Council before selecting someone for a second term. This quirk will presumably affect McNamara the most, since he has just been Mayor and the other three are not actively campaigning...