Word: nassau
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Life continued to imitate a detective story in the ongoing Howard Hughes mystery last week. No fewer than nine private investigators moved into rooms directly beneath the Hughes suite on the ninth floor of Nassau's Britannia Beach Hotel, their suitcases crammed with bugging devices, amplifiers and detailed maps of the island. Perhaps nine was a few too many to be inconspicuous; perhaps they were out-bugged from above. In any case, they were spotted, questioned and turned over to Bahamian authorities by agents of Intertel, a security firm employed by the Hughes Tool Co. "Get off the island...
...King, whose King Resources sold interests in oil wells and other holes in the ground, tried to come to Cornfeld's rescue with a loan. Instead, King himself was caught in a money bind and ousted by his board. Keith Barish, 26, a financial whiz who had made Nassau's Gramco Management Ltd. the second-ranking offshore mutual fund complex, was also hit by a wave of fund redemptions that forced him to suspend some operations. Several big-thinking Texans were deflated. James Ling, whose merger magic had expanded a tiny electrical firm into a $3.75 billion conglomerate...
...clothes or clean homes. The ban, which is effective March 1, will be mostly a test of housewives' restraint. Although the law imposes penalties (up to $250 and 15 days in jail) on sellers of detergents, anybody who wants them badly enough can buy them legally in adjoining Nassau County. The real problem is that the detergent industry has not yet developed substitute soaps that work as well and also break down in nature. Even so, the Suffolk County law will help speed the industry's efforts to produce something better...
...Lampoon suggested that Old Nassau's players might be sporting menacing signet rings on their fingers in order to carve up the faces of their Harvard opponents. The editors intended it to be amusing, and were amused Princeton partisans, who as a rule seemed to take things rather seriously, were not. Nor were they amused by a Lampoon story claiming that Princeton coach W. W. Roper had died. "I think Princeton took it pretty hard, pretty hard," offered Carroll F. Getchell this week. Getchell was athletics business manager at the time...
PRINCETON-BROWN: Yawn. If you're sweet sixteen now, you weren't even one when Brown last beat the Tigers. Old Nassau has hardly been a powerhouse this fall, but when the Bruins lose to Colgate, I'd say don't bet the ranch on Brown. Don't even bet yesterday's grits. Call...