Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Big Red wasted no time in taking the lead as Brian Cornell, no relation to Ezra, put in a goal unassisted seven seconds after the opening face-off. Bob McGuinn and Pete Tufford increased the advantage to 3-0 before the end of the first period to further discourage Harvard partisans...
...line was the product of a unique three-way merger that in 1968 brought together Pacific Air Lines of San Francisco, Phoenix-based Bonanza and Seattle's West Coast. None of the three was big enough to boss the other two, and the result of divided leadership was snarled schedules and fouled-up reservations. The Bank of America, which financed the merger with $54 million and expected its money back by Jan. 1, advised Air West's management to sell the company "before it is no longer at tractive." Meanwhile, no more loans...
Nonetheless, Air West's stockholders two weeks ago voted 52% in favor of Hughes. Then, in a surprising move, Air West's directors voted 13 to 11 not to sanction the sale. With that, some big pro-Hughes shareholders threatened court action. Hughes' agent, Francis Fox, who communicates with his secretive boss via closed-circuit TV, got in touch with the holdout directors. Perhaps because of the threatened lawsuits, six of them switched to Hughes...
...cater to an unhappy estimate of American tastes. Decor ran from motel modern to floating Howard Johnson's. One Cunard official tried to explain the limp bill of fare: "What we are trying for is decent middle-class food. We are not pretending to be the equal of big, first-class London or New York restaurants." By contrast, ships of the French Line, the Italian Line and others have some of the world's finest cuisine...
Penn, which has suffered the loss of two starters for the season already, hopes to be at full strength for the Harvard game. Captain Pete Andrews sat out last week's three point loss to Princeton (the Quakers blew a big lead in that one) with the flu, but both he and senior leaper Carl Robbins are expected to start...