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...Davies family moved to North Dakota in 1917. settled in Grand Forks, where Ronald became a high-school scatback ("I didn't do too well through the line. They had to shake me loose"). He worked his way through the University of North Dakota (as a soda jerk and clothing-store clerk), ran the 100-yd. dash on the track team. "I was getting awfully tired of running second all the time," he recalls. "Alongside the university there's some railroad spurs. I got the idea that running through the spurs in the snow I'd have...
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes. To reverse the trend in New Jersey, Forbes quickly discovered he needed both friends and an issue. To gain friends, he revved himself up into an Estes Kefauver of suburbia. He has climbed aboard Manhattan-bound ferryboats to shake hands, waded into lakes, scoured supermarkets, logged 6,000 miles on the converted milk truck. Along with this "Operation Doorbell" went "Operation Coffee Cup." By the hundreds, New Jersey women are sitting down to sip coffee from Forbes-decorated cups, dab at their lips with paper napkins imprinted with a Forbes family cooky recipe, listen to a tape...
...common stocks to benefit from increased dividends in boom times when the cost of living is on the rise. While huge Prudential Insurance Co. plumped for the variable annuity, Metropolitan and others opposed it, arguing that a drop in stock dividends-and a cut in annuity payments -would shake public confidence in insurance. The Securities and Exchange Commission got into the act, contending that it had the power to supervise any such plan, and joined with the National Association of Securities Dealers in a test case to stop the sale of unregistered variable annuities by two small insurance companies...
...kind ever held in Detroit, more than 2,600 well-wishers last year paid $100 apiece in honor of Hoffa's 25 years in the labor movement (proceeds for a children's home in Israel). Scores of important names in the Midwest seized the chance to shake the hard, square hand of Hoffa. And though General Motors, Ford and Chrysler employ only 500 Teamsters (out of a total payroll list of 800,000), the auto industry sent big men: a General Motors vice president, a Ford vice president, and a Chrysler industrial-relations executive. One reason: Jimmy Hoffa...
...down to 40 ft., although he had somersaulted as high as 101 ft. A bare six seconds after he reached for his handle. Hughes hit a plowed field at the end of the runway. For a long second he lay still. Then he bounced up and started to shake hands with the crowd of Navymen that sprinted up to him. ''You feel a terrific crash on your rump, and the next thing, you are out on the end of your chute,'' gasped Hughes. "I feel wizard, though. Positively wizard...