Word: realtor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish diehard fans whose friendship and happiness hinges on the fortunes of the Detroit Tigers. They know literally everything about their team since the '30s--not baseball trivia, as Don explains, because "you can't say 'baseball trivia'...it's a contradiction in terms. It's antithetical." Bert, a realtor in Oak Park, Michigan, keeps two sets of figures on his desk in September, 1973: the number of days remaining in Nixon's term, and AI Kaline's lifetime batting average calculated to his most recent...
...lenders and real estate agents are scrambling to keep up with demand. Says Jerald Ruben, president of General Realty Corp., one of the largest new-home real estate agencies in the Detroit area: "It's the most fantastic thing I've seen in 25 years." Reports Connecticut Realtor Phyllis McGovern: "The momentum has been building for over a year, but I've never seen anything like the last three months...
...household possessions. After his own portrait session, President Ford asked Karsh to get in touch the next time he visits Palm Springs, Calif., where the Fords have decided to spend their retirement. They sold their four-bedroom, colonial-style residence in Alexandria, Va., last week to an Iranian-born realtor for $137,000. Ford had built the brick and clapboard house for $34,000 in 1955. The resale price reflected not simply improvements and normal appreciation in value but also, as the buyer acknowledged, the fact that Gerald R. Ford had slept there for almost 19 years...
John J. Campbell, a Cambridge realtor and former member of the board, said the CRCB must be realistic in solving the problem and should recognize that landowners who don't make enough profit won't make necessary repairs or maintain the buildings they rent, harming the tenants...
...heart attack; in Essex, England. A British citizen who claimed descent from Polish kings, Radziwill fled his native land during World War II when the Soviets imprisoned or killed several members of his family. The toothbrush-mustached prince, a naturalized British subject since 1951, became a highly successful London realtor. He met Lee Bouvier Canfield in 1957. After divorcing their respective mates, they were married in 1959, and one year later Radziwill campaigned in U.S. Polish communities for his brother-in-law, Presidential Aspirant John F. Kennedy. The Radziwills, who had two children, were divorced...