Word: starrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accused Buckley of misusing his position as chairman of the publicly owned Starr Broadcasting Group, Inc., a Westport, Conn., firm owning radio and TV stations throughout the U.S. The charge was that he arranged to have the company bail him and three partners out of a bad investment in some Texas movie theaters by having Starr buy the theaters. Rather than fight the charge, Buckley signed a tough consent decree, saying :hat he wanted to avoid costly litigation. The decree requires him to surrender Starr stock worth more than $600,000 to a court-administered fund that may be distributed...
Buckley helped create Starr in 1966 and was its chairman from 1969 until 977. In 1971 he set up a separate venture called Sitco in partnership with three other Starr officer-directors. Sitco bought 7 Texas movie theaters, but the investment went sour; revenue from the theaters could not cover the interest on the partners' loans, and they faced a threat of personal bankruptcy. In 1974, however, Buckley allegedly proposed that Starr itself buy the theaters. The next year it did -for $8 million, most of which represented assumption of the partners' loans. The SEC charged that this...
...Julie Starr, replacing Tania Huber at center on the number one line of Huber, Sara Fischer and Meg Streeter, combined with Streeter to set up leftwinger Fischer for a third period hat trick, her first of the season. Two of her three goals came with the Crimson...
...explanation for the tradition of terror in California, and particularly in San Francisco, is that the area is a mecca for restless dreamers. The mark of the 1849 gold rush is still pervasive. Writes Kevin Starr in Americans and the California Dream: "The state remained, after all, a land characterized by an essential selfishness and an underlying instability, a fixation upon the quick acquisition of wealth, an impatience with the more subtle premises of human happiness." Of the 1960s, when some 1,000 people a day fled west, Joan Didion wrote in Slouching Towards Bethlehem: "Adolescents drifted from city...
...succeeding episodes, and a staff of regular characters assembles. There is Mary (Victoria Plucknett), Louisa's adoring assistant, and Major Smith-Barton (Richard Vernon), a guest at the hotel who becomes his landlady's sidekick and confidant. Comic relief appears with Merriman (John Welsh), a teetering old headwaiter, and Starr (John Cater), the imperturbable hall porter. Asked by Louisa during his job interview whether he fought in the Boer War, Starr gazes at her evenly and pauses. "Very possibly," he finally answers. Christopher Cazenove lends his Arrow-shirt ad good looks as Charlie Tyrrell, alternately Louisa's benefactor, lover...