Word: riches
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Solid fullback play brought Quincy its 2-1 victory over Lowell in soccer. Half-back Bob Rock scored first for Quincy on a loft shot from midfield that cleared the upreached hands of the Lowell goalie. Hammy Clark tied the score for Lowell before the half, but Rich Conkling provided the winning score in the third period...
...becoming more and more clear that Harvard can at will use the Cambridge goverment (including the police and the courts) to promote the political ends of the rich businessmen who sit on the Harvard Corporation and to intimidate those who oppose them...
...park-building programs, but state authorities have never tried to set a date for investment-banking houses to bid on them. They have reason for their timidity. About half of the investment-banking houses that were buying state and city bonds a year ago, for resale to banks and rich individual investors, have stopped doing...
Kirk Kerkorian, 52, who built his $275 million fortune on airlines, hotels and Las Vegas gambling, last week added another potentially rich prize to his leisure and travel domain. He won control of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the ailing moviemaker, with a stunningly successful tender offer for some $26 million of its common stock at $42 a share. In August, Kerkorian had picked up 22% of MOM's stock through another tender. Now his holdings will rise to at least 32% and perhaps to as much as 45% of the company's shares, depending on how much...
...prophesied an early demise for his Investors Overseas Services, which flouted tradition and aggressively sold mutual funds to investors abroad, much as Fuller Brush men peddle house hold wares in the U.S. Now that the raff ish upstart has built I.O.S. assets to $1.8 billion, he has become too rich and powerful to deride. Investment hous es seek Cornfeld's favor, and continental bankers have begun imitating his sales methods. Last week I.O.S. brought out its first public offering of common stock, and eager investors abroad bid the shares to a large premium...