Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles Kings' Wayne Rutledge says that "the big curve should be outlawed, and goalies should go on strike to see that it's done." In lieu of that, Chicago's Dave Dryden feels that at the very least goalies should be equipped with their own curved sticks. "That way," he says ruefully, "we can fire the puck back at them...
Hospitals are big business. Yet according to Jerome Pollack, professor of medical economics at Harvard Medical School, they are a prime example of gross mismanagement. Hospitals are run by boards of trustees, made up mostly of businessmen, who would never dream of running their own corporations the way they try to operate a hospital...
...today's jetliners, if a pilot allows his speed to reach 85% of the speed of sound, a bell rings and a light flash es to caution him to go no faster. There is good reason for the warning. Beyond that limit, the big ships generate turbulence that causes a drastic loss in efficiency and sometimes dangerous buf feting. Thus, although the sonic barrier is around 660 m.p.h. at the normal jet cruising altitude of 35,000 ft., commercial jets are held down to a speed of about 560 m.p.h...
...Last year his Manhattan computer-leasing firm gained control of Reliance Insurance, a large multi-line company, and squeezed a $100 million dividend out of its coffers to finance other Leasco operations. Last week Steinberg admitted at Leasco's annual meeting that his takeover appetite has grown so big that he would like to swallow Chemical Bank New York Trust Co., the nation's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $9 billion). Chemical Chairman William S. Renchard has promised to fend off "aggressors" vigorously...
...family's business future is on the high seas rather than on the Hollywood film lots. He is a model of the well-modulated executive. His father, by contrast, still broadcasts endless orders and advice in his own peculiar Greco-American, calling businessmen and most other people "big sots"-his way of saying big shots. He remains chairman of 20th Century-Fox, but the post is largely honorific. Having sold or given away much of the $6,000,000 interest that the Skourases had in Fox, he laments that "I'm in debt up to my neck because...