Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...project are Michael Arlen, Carl Bernstein, Nora Ephron, Frances Fitz-Gerald, Jerzy Kosinski, George and Freddy Plimpton, Terry Southern and about three or four dozen other wordsmiths from leading publishing firms, the unemployment rolls and the Times itself. Observed Calvin Trillin, one of the town's few big-time scribes who declined to participate: "Sounds as if they emptied the back room at Elaine's for this...
Psst... want to speculate against the dollar? It's easy - even if the amateur lacks the cash or savvy to deal in the big-time foreign-exchange markets. For $26.75 almost anybody can buy a traveler's check denominated in German marks or Japanese yen; $32.95 gets one denominated in Swiss francs. The buyer can hold it as long as he likes and then cash it in at the exchange rate prevailing that...
Most issuers of traveler's checks, including American Express, Thomas Cook and big banks, sell checks denominated in foreign currencies - 15 to 20 of them in the case of Deak & Co., the big currency dealer. They are intended for tourists but can be bought by stay-at-homes too. Deak reports that its sales of foreign-currency traveler's checks have doubled in the past year and estimates that 25% of the purchases are pure speculation. Nor is it only a poor man's game. Executive Vice President Otto E. Roethenmund recalls one customer who bought between...
Until now, VW's Pennsylvania wage has averaged more than a dollar less than what Detroit's Big Three pay, and VW workers insist on catching up. In sum, the VW workers want at least $10 an hour by 1981. The walkout is the latest sign that labor leaders' clout with their membership is waning - an ominous portent for next year's heavy calendar of union bargaining. The VW strike is also unsettling other foreign firms that are thinking of starting plants in the U.S., notably Japan's automaking Toyota, Nissan (Datsun) and Honda. Says...
...carefully down on the farm, then bring young players up to the parent club to fill the gaps that age and injury inevitably open during the long, hot summer. Of a 25-man roster, 13 are onetime Dodger farm boys. In contrast, the Yankees built their team by spending big bucks on the free-agent market and have only six home-grown players on their squad. The Yankees can field the most devastating starting nine in baseball but have few reserves to call upon when trouble strikes...