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...dropout from Johns Hopkins, Agnew studied law while working at Maryland Casualty Co. in the sprinkler-leakage department. After Army service in the war, he hung out his lawyer's shingle-and starved. Driven to the help wanted ads, he became assistant personnel manager at Schreibers', a Baltimore supermarket chain. Then the Army recalled Agnew and nearly sent him to Korea, although he was a married man in his 30s with three children...
...Viet Nam and nights interviewing Fidel Castro as America's star female reporter. By day she extols the virtues of the grocery list as pop art. By night she is an intern working miracles in a ghetto hospital. She is a loving spectator of the sandbox-and-sprinkler set but her mind's eye is on PROWL, a black revolutionary group where she is mistress to the leader. Playground palaver is easy to ignore when at dusk in the arms of your lover you will play a pivotal role in a plot to blow up the George Washington...
Each faculty of the University pays premiums for fire, sprinkler damage, and extensive coverage on academic buildings. The self-insurance plan adjusts premiums on a basis of a building's age and degree of fire-resistance...
...grown impatient with such lethargic ways. The younger men are pushing the industry into more adventurous investments and diversification programs. Within the past year, INA Corp., the holding company for Insurance Co. of North America, has acquired World Airways, a charter carrier, and a manufacturer of fire-preventing sprinkler systems. Travellers Corp., owner of Hartford's Travellers Life Insurance Co., is dickering to buy Randolph Computer Corp., a major computer-leasing firm. This month, CNA Financial Corp., the Chicago-based owner of a group of life-and casualty-insurance firms, completed acquisition of The Larwin Group Companies, a California...
...sprinkler system had gone off at the same time as the alarm. When the men entered the room, there were no flames. Some furniture and papers were smoldering, and there was a lot of smoke. The policemen broke a window and threw charred maps, books, and a podium outside. Three fire engines, a ladder truck, and a rescue car arrived at 4:43 a.m. Moriarty said the police looked for fingerprints...