Word: station
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Icky Wine. The center of Julie's life, however, is Daughter Emma (pronounced Emmer by the family), a blue-eyed blonde who most resembles her father. Julie chauffeurs her to nursery school every day in her 1965 Falcon station wagon, and at least one day a week sends the nanny off and takes over completely. The two paint together (Julie took up oils this fall) or belt out duets of Daisy, Daisy, although Emma doesn't like to hear Mummy rehearse-which is why she has to practice while driving to work...
...Without his knowledge, convicted Robber Harold Travers' parole hearing at Connecticut's Somers State Prison was secretly filmed and recorded by Hartford's WTIC-TV for a documentary on prison life. Though his face and name were not revealed, Travers sought $50,000 damages from the station and state officials for invasion of privacy. The facts might indeed have entitled a "full-fledged citizen" to sue, ruled U.S. District Judge M. Joseph Blumenfeld. But "no actionable invasion occurs if the subject of such publicity is a prisoner. A prisoner becomes a public figure by virtue...
...takes in about $240 a week as the operator of a midtown newsstand. David Flowers, who had to give up his job as a house painter after he injured his back in an auto crash, has become the owner of a thriving eight-pump, seven-employee service station on Chicago's South Side...
...communities. Though defaults have come to 3.4% of that total as compared with a mere 0.2% in commercial bank lending, the agency calls itself "pleasantly surprised" that the record is not worse. Even so, some critics complain that the SBA has taken some mighty peculiar risks. A service station folded because the owner wasn't around enough to keep track of the operation. A small manufacturer of plastics and draperies failed because he priced his products below cost. Even though he had undergone one bankruptcy before, Chicago Taxi Driver Lawrence Young persuaded the SBA to lend...
Tall, courtly Al Nickerson, 55, has been the $250,000-a-year chairman of the nation's sixth largest company (1965 sales: $5.5 billion) since 1961. He joined Mobil in 1933 when, fresh out of Harvard, he landed a $19-a-week job in a Brookline, Mass., service station. One of his main achievements has been to help build up Mobil's foreign operations, which ^suffered heavily during World War II, to the point where they now bring in more than half of the company's net income, which reached a record $320 million...