Word: arnolds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...could tell that when he was still at the academy." Assigned to the Pentagon in late 1960, Moorer sometimes exasperated Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his computer-minded whiz kids (whom he was fond of calling "the numbers-racket people"), and sometimes confronted them with analogies like this: "Arnold Palmer played golf the other day. In terms of your weapons-analysis system, he used his 5 iron three times, his driver 18 times and his putter 38 times. Well, according to your system, if he wants to play even better golf, he should go out and get more putters...
...Listen, a magazine beamed at serious music lovers by three serious music lovers: Leonard Altman, James Goodfriend and Arnold Foster. Sample article from its current issue: "Tone-Languages of Nigeria...
Automobile carburetors have little in common with the visionary paintings of Paul Klee, but Arnold Maremont is a devoted connoisseur of both. Mare mont, 59, is president of Chicago's Maremont Corp., a leader in the greasy, $7 billion business of making spare parts for old cars. Yet he runs his firm from a low ebony coffee-table desk, surrounded by modern paintings and chairs by Mies van der Rohe, is as elegant and impeccably dressed as if he were managing Tiffany's. All this seems to help: he has built Maremont's sales from $30 million...
...Scheme. Until five years ago, Maremont Corp. was almost exclusively a maker of auto mufflers. Looking for broader fields, Arnold Maremont noted that the auto spare-parts business seemed to offer depression-proof growth. The number of cars on the road increases by at least 4,000,000 every year, and spare parts move even when new-car sales falter, because motorists must spend more to keep their old cars running. Maremont also noticed that Detroit auto companies supplied only 30% of the parts, while thousands of independents producing a jumble of reliable and unreliable products fought over the rest...
Arnie's Army is physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight. And now it's going to be clean too. Along with his 20-odd other ventures, Golfer Arnold Palmer, 34, is going into the laundry business in New York. It's called Arnold Palmer Laundries, Dry Cleaning and Maid Service Inc., is really the brainstorm of former Wimbledon Champion Sidney Wood, who's been in the business a long time. All Arnie has to do is be board chairman and collect the dough. Like the company slogan says: "Suits...