Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bigger than Beaches. Sir Stafford himself pulled up stakes in Nassau last spring and moved to self-imposed exile in Spain, although he says he still plans to spend a few winter months each year at Waterloo, his home on East...
...sake of drama or publicity, numbers are slapped on nearly everything-and the bigger the number the better. During July's two-day rail strike, the Chicago Association of Commerce and Industry issued an instant statistic that the city was losing $40 million to $60 million a day, into which total were cranked lost railroad fares and freight revenues, reduced restaurant and hotel receipts, smaller store sales, and presumably the money that visiting butter-and-egg conventioneers or traveling salesmen might spend on tours and girls. Overlooked was the probability that most of the businessmen made their visit anyway...
Slippery Splash. She was off-Broadway next in John Steinbeck's Burning Bright. Then followed two bigger opportunities, Motel with Siobhan McKenna, which folded in Boston, and Face of a Hero, starring Jack Lemmon. Says Jack gallantly: "If Sandy had been playing my role, we'd probably still be running." The show closed after 36 performances, and she switched to Graham Greene's Complaisant Lover, which starred Sir Michael Redgrave. In an ingenue supporting role, she made her splash opening night when the elastic of her half-slip gave way. As the silk was heading...
...telephone system, stood to get even larger by agreeing to a $145 million stock transaction that will merge Northern Ohio Telephone Co. into a new General Telephone subsidiary. The takeover of Northern Ohio, which serves 161,000 telephones in 24 Ohio counties, comes just three months after an even bigger deal with the 310,000-phone Hawaiian Telephone Co., and it expands General Telephone's U.S. network to 8,600,000 phones...
Getting Itchy. Katz has his eye on a bigger package. In 1960, he paid $1,700,000 for the 91-year-old Massachusetts firm of LePage's, which makes glue and adhesive tape. He has since streamlined the operation, cutting out unprofitable lines, and LePage's is now in the black. Last year Papercraft entered a new field-that of vinyl tablecloths and place mats that look like lace-by buying out the Eastern Industrial Plastics Corp., since renamed American Universal Plastics...