Word: baron
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Loyal Radcliffe girls have been busy sewing brown arm-bands for shirtless volunteers. One parental relative of an AAA volunteer who owns an arms factory in Des Moines, Ia., has donated 10,000 rounds of ammunition to the army. A Southern chemicals baron is providing 400 liters of gas and has organized a napalm reserve...
...most successful peasant, Nikita Khrushchev, talks about one of the world's most successful capitalists, Cyrus Stephen Eaton, he beams. And vice versa. Last week this odd international friendship brought the capitalist a unique gift and an unusual visit. Who is this man who enjoys living like a baron of old, and thinks of himself as a philosopher of the new? See BUSINESS, Khrushchev's Favorite Capitalist...
...than Krupp-Bochumer Verein, with a 6,000,000-ton capacity and nearly $1 billion in sales. Mannesmann, the No. 4 steel producer, recently eliminated several of its subsidiaries, absorbed them into the main firm. The trend to growth extends beyond iron and coal. Friedrich Flick, a prewar steel baron who was forced to sell off many of his holdings after he was sent to prison as a war criminal, has built a new empire in autos. He got control of Daimler-Benz, joined it with the big Auto Union manufacturer to form Germany's biggest auto moneymaker...
There have been troubles too. Kentucky's 1952-53 team was banned from N.C.A.A. play on charges that Rupp knowingly used ineligible players, condoned cash payments to his stars. But Kentucky did not blame the Baron, in fact gave him a vote of confidence...
Rupp's success at Kentucky is traceable to indefatigable recruiting, and a merciless concentration on perfection of fundamentals. Admits the Baron: "Of course, we get good boys here at Kentucky. Every boy in the state, from the time he's born, lives for the day he can play at the university." Once Rupp gets his players, he drills them endlessly and without letup. They live together in the same dormitory, eat a special diet. Practices are conducted in semi-silence, save for an occasional tongue-lashing directed by Rupp at a player who is not giving...