Word: sanded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Como, 21, chunkier look-alike son of Perry Como, 47, and the crooner's pretty wife Roselle, spent spring vacation with his parents on Florida's Jupiter Island. Father and son characteristically kept aloof from the social-registered regulars of nearby Palm Beach, spent their time digging sand-flea bait and fishing for pompano...
...Manhattan's richest men. Sons of the late Generoso Pope, who arrived from Italy with $4 and turned it into millions before he died at 59 in 1950, they have faithfully carried on their father's habit of making money. They control New York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest...
...Popes had pleaded guilty to violating Securities and Exchange Commission regulations, were sentenced for giving false and misleading information in soliciting proxies from 1,000 stockholders of Colonial Sand & Stone, which their father founded. The registration statements failed to mention that the Pope brothers had transferred $379,000 from Colonial, of which they control two-thirds, into other corporations, which they own wholly. The money was profit from trucking rock salt for New York City, which recently disqualified the Popes as rock salt suppliers. The state charged that the Popes, who bought much of their salt from Dominican Dictator Trujillo...
...Jolla the Cuss I drilled five holes, the deepest 1,035 ft. Cores of sand, mud and soft stone with a few fossils were brought up. In spite of the loss of two diamond-studded drill points, the tests were considered highly successful...
Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). "Sand and Snow" depicts the Casablanca conference, the Russian victory at Stalingrad, U.S. and British successes in North Africa...