Word: outfitted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small fixed donations from its membership, which now numbers 87 cities and eight Bay Area counties; its financial practices were informal to the point of being nonexistent. In 1965, the new U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development decided to back ABAG's cooperative philosophy, named the embryonic outfit its regional planning agency and showered it with lucre. All told, HUD gave ABAC $1,080,000, sending checks in plain brown envelopes without prior notice, according to Truax's boss, ABAG Executive Director Warren Schmidt. For the past 13 months, Truax apparently had been treating the brown-paper...
...spent a couple of years setting up his own investment outfit. Then he got an offer to head Cities Service, a company dominated by Oklahoma oilmen who, understandably, wanted to make their big corporation bigger. Burns took on the job, and started out to do what he thought the oilmen wanted. He tried to diversify Cities Service, acquired Fesco, Inc., a maker of molded-plastic housewares, and agreed to acquire, pending stockholder approval, Akron Equipment Co., a tire-mold manufacturer. So far so good. But Burns had also urged that Cities Service buy out Hugoton Production Co., a Kansas-based...
...traditional circles. Says Walter Elcock, president of Brookline's Longwood Cricket Club, where players have worn only whites since 1877: "So many changes are being made in tennis, I can't see that a few more will hurt the game. I might even try a colored outfit myself...
Despite the risks, it can be immensely profitable. Adman Marion Harper Jr. became head of McCann-Erickson in 1948 at 32, spun the outfit into the vast Interpublic Group (advertising, public relations, market research) and racked up billings of $700 million a year by last fall. When Interpublic went deep into debt, he was eased into a powerless chairmanship (TIME, Dec. 15). But when he was eased out altogether two weeks ago, Harper was not exactly out of pocket. Interpublic was reported to have bought back his 100,000 shares in the company, worth $2,200,000 at book value...
...usual Loeb interior. Alan P. Symond's lighting still casts a few unintended shadows, but should be rebalanced by tonight, at which time also the all-important gaslight might be better coordinated with Mrs. Manningham's references to it. Among the citations in the program is one to an outfit named "Bwana Bus and Lighting" whom we are presumably to thank for some incidental virtue of this pleasant, unmemorable show...