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Marty's long-smoldering hatred for his father came to an explosive boil two weeks ago when his old man took his car and $40 in grocery money, went off on a drinking spree with a woman. That night Marty and his mother caught up with the couple in a taproom, demanded the money. Marty's face turned white when his father snarled: "I don't have a cent left. We were over in Jersey and we had a good time." Telling his mother "I can't stand this any more," the boy got into...
...must agree to drop the proxy fight. It will sell 300,000 of its 692,000 Fairbanks shares to Fairbanks, Morse at $50 a share v. the $56 market price, a sharp cut below the $69 that Silberstein paid for some of the shares during his 15-month buying spree. To finance the purchase, which reduces Fairbanks, Morse outstanding shares to 1,072,000, the company will issue $15 million in convertible debentures, underwritten by Board Member Casey's investment banking house...
Later, Landau climaxed his spree by whipping Fisk in the low hurdles, with teammate Dave Rosenthal only a foot behind the Eli in third place...
...million because "lead-time financing has been reduced-notably for spare parts-[some] maintenance support . . . has been eliminated, and items have been removed from grant-aid which countries can now pay for themselves." Ike's military-assistance cut was a real concession to the congressional economy spree and a clear effort to forestall whacks with an even heavier meat...
Wagner robbed a bank in Richmond, III., last August 29, shortly before he enrolled at M.I.T. He was arrested December 8 in Oklahoma City, after having spent all but $4500 of the stolen money in a wild cross-country spree...