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...less than two years.* Beginning in 1966, Penphil bought 21,380 shares of First Bank & Trust Co. of Boca Raton, Fla., for $332,924. A real estate subsidiary of the Penn Central, Arvida Corp., moved huge deposits into the bank, and as realty development helped the bank to thrive, the value of Penphil's investment grew...
...whites in Wilcox-and seemingly in most of Alabama-seem to thrive on a heavy diet of hatred and racism. There are still lynchings in this county. Within the past two years, a black man has been castrated, a white woman has shot a black male child, and a white doctor who is a member of the KKK has plotted to have the county's black VISTA director assassinated. In Selma (50 miles from here) only a week before I got here, a policeman beat a black man to death on the street...
Only in the present climate could somebody like M.M.-remember when those initials stood for someone lovely?-thrive, and the only compensation is that, by a kind of prosaic justice, the Attorney General got what he deserved: a waspish Mrs. Portnoy whose cracks can be mended only with Silly Putty. Yentas of the world, unite-you've got nothing to lose but your brains...
Yovicsin made a brief speech, thanking many people and expressing the hope that the Harvard football program will continue to thrive. "This is the boys' party," he ended, "and I want to join...
...many in the U.S., the only sheriffs left ride the limitless wastes of TV. But sheriffs thrive in most of the nation's 3,049 counties, many as political bigwigs, some as serious law enforcers. Of those who ran for office last week, a few seemed more than routine...