Word: succession
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...venture was such a success that Carlsberg opened posher Stallion Springs Horse Ranch in semiarid land north of Los Angeles. Campers at Stallion are less interested in roughing it than riding it, drawn by the park's boarding stables, corrals and an equestrian show ring that seats 600. Though he also runs a profitable real estate and construction company, Carlsberg is concerned, he says, about "retaining land as much as possible in its natural beauty...
...attributed his success to his rather square and old-fashioned philosophy that "man with God's help and personal dedication is capable of anything he can dream." But who could argue with the shrewdly audacious small-town boy who put together the world's foremost chain of luxury hotels and became a multiple millionaire and one of the most colorful American businessmen? From New York to Istanbul and from Las Vegas to Addis Ababa, the name of Conrad Nicholson Hilton was synonymous with hotel, as in "I'm staying at the Hilton...
...Michael Mamakos toiled for six hours. They removed damaged tissue from both stump and leg (including nearly 5 in. of bone), inserted a 15-in. stainless steel rod into the thigh bone as a support, then reconnected an artery and two veins. Heartened by the surgery's initial success, an exultant Wertlieb said after the operation: "It was a New Year's Eve high without a drink...
...eight years dead now, and his last album with The Doors, "An American Prayer," was released about a month ago. It has been praised as an innovative success, and has been chastized as an exploitative enterprise by a vain recording industry. After all, someone is making money from a dead man's art. But The Doors have answered these charges, saying that they have been in spiritual communication with Jim Morrison from beyond the grave, and Morrison says he likes the album...
Sandra Seville-Jones '82, a member of one of the top teams, said she agreed with Rosenbaum that unity and cooperation are factors in the club's success...