Word: aced
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...desks are decorated with a motto of the house: "Learn to listen." The man that Bache's 5,000 employees are expected to listen to most intently is Chairman Harold L. Bache, 71, whose granduncle founded the firm 87 years ago. Last week, after Bache President Adrian C. ("Ace") Israel, 50, suddenly resigned because of "a basic disagreement over corporate policy," Wall Streeters were saying that the real reason was that Israel had found himself forced to listen without ever being able to get a word in edgeways...
...Francisco needs solid seasons from Shaw and ace Juan Marichal to support younger hurlers like Bob Bolin and Ron Herbel. Otherwise the team is fairly deep in all positions. With a healthy Orlando Cepeda, Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, and Jim Ray Hart, the Giants have a scary clutch of brute power...
Hetherington, winner of last year's tournament and runner-up to Vic Nieder-Hoffer the year before, is a former Yale ace and is currently ranked among the top four amateur players in the country. In the finals last year, he defeated Terry Robinson...
Hetherington, to reach the finals, downed Crimson sophomore Jose Gonzalez, 3-0 and freshman ace Anil Nayar, 3-2, in the semifinals...
Harvard's other ace sophomore, Jose Gonsales, almost upset Yale's John West in the quarterfinals, but the hard-hitting number two seed held on, 16-13, 5-15, 15-10, 6-15, 16-14. In the semi-finals, West changed tactics and tried to exchange softer shots with Penn's Howard Coonley. It didn't work, and Coonley...