Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are also drivers in the brutal world of big-time stock car racing, and 31 weekends a year, from January to November, they are transformed. Exchanging their designer jeans and Christian Dior shirts for fire-resistant jumpsuits, they climb behind the wheels of souped-up sedans?Chevrolets, Fords, Oldsmobiles-?or a Sunday afternoon of racing. And once the gentlemen have started their engines, they often revert to type, crowding each other, even banging fenders, at 170 m.p.h., just as the mythic forebears of their sport dueled with the revenooers on the back roads twisting through the Appalachian Mountains...
...surge of big money has made seven drivers millionaires, and even Neil Bonnett, who finished eighth in earnings last year, totted up $155,875 (which, as is customary, he had to share with the owner of his car). In 1978 Yarborough won a record $530,751, and his total was up to $101,615 after the first eight races this year. In addition to his 50% share of the winnings, Yarborough earns an estimated $250,000 a year from personal appearances, endorsements and royalties from souvenirs bearing his image (T shirts, ashtrays, place mats, coffee mugs). The owner of Yarborough...
Though Halberstam glances occasionally at the big picture, he stares hardest at four especially successful news organizations and, more particularly, at the people who shaped or reshaped them: TIME and its co-founder Henry Luce; CBS and Board Chairman William S. Paley; the Washington Post and successive Publishers Philip Graham and his wife Katharine; the Los Angeles Times and Publishers Norman Chandler and his son Otis. (Curiously, Halberstam largely ignores the New York Times, explaining that much has been written about the paper in the past and citing his "personal and ambivalent" feelings toward his former employer.) Journalism critics...
Because he concentrates so heavily on owners and proprietors, Halberstam's portrait of the press is full of big money. This presence unquestionably adds spice. And his guarded sympathy for publishers also offers a useful corrective to many books about the press. Seeking profits, in Halberstam's story, is no crime; a news organization that goes broke can no longer do any harm or good. "It was a curious irony of capitalism," he writes, "that among the only outlets rich enough and powerful enough to stand up to an overblown, occasionally reckless, otherwise unchallenged central government were journalistic institutions that...
...big bats of both teams fell silent until late in the contest when Harvard managed the only tally of the first five innings as Bobby Kelley scored from second base after Mark Bingham's topper was mishandled by the first baseman in the third...