Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...furrier, Julius Jennings Hoffman grew up in Chicago, graduated from Northwestern University Law School and went into corporate practice. At 33, he married Eleanor H. Greenebaum, whose family controlled what became the Brunswick Corp., which makes bowling alleys and other products. He served as the company's counsel until he was elected a state circuit-court judge in 1947. A generous supporter of the Republican Party, he became the first Jew on the federal bench in the Northern Illinois district when President Eisenhower appointed...
When Burns decided on Columbia as the college of his choice, he went about applying with typical directness; he marched straight to the office of the president. Advised that the college had closed its admissions for the year, he nonetheless so impressed the authorities that they made room for him-and gave him a scholarship as well. To help put himself through college, he worked as a postal clerk, waiter, shoe salesman and mess boy on an oil tanker; he also wrote business articles for the New York Herald Tribune...
...boom was set off by a small but promising nickel find in the sand and spinifex of Western Australia. It attracted particular attention because of the worldwide nickel shortage, made worse this summer when Canadian nickel miners went on strike. A tiny Australian mining company called Poseidon started the speculative mania late in September. A drill on its 1,100-acre lease in desolate Windarra churned up traces of nickel ore. After the company announced assays of 3.5% nickel, its stock, which had sold earlier in the year for 50? a share, jumped to $35. "In sober fact...
...nickel find was made by Ken Shirley, 55, a veteran of 40 years' prospecting for gold in the Outback. Last year he went to work for Poseidon. He found several promising outcroppings and staked out the drilling site. The big payoff has gone not to Shirley but to his burly friend Norman Shierlaw, an Adelaide broker, who hired him for Poseidon. A mining engineer before turning to finance last year, Shierlaw controls 8% of the company's 2.5 million shares, an amount worth $6.5 million. Sitting behind a desk littered with empty beer cans, lumps of ore, contract...
Merv seemed lusterless after dark; his whoopee all seemed to come from an aerosol can that went poof. In the latest ratings, Carson was more securely than ever the nation's midnight idol, commanding a healthy 37% of the audience, compared with a measly 15% for Griffin. ABC's Joey Bishop is third, with 12%. The remaining 36% of the viewers are watching old movies and other shows scheduled by independent channels and network-affiliated holdouts...