Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karl Wallenda, the patriarch, would not give up. "It is our pride," he said. "I feel better if I go up again. Down here on the ground I break all to pieces." Some of his partners were less determined. "I'm scared silly every time I go on," said Gunther Wallenda, a nephew. Karl's second wife Helen, who once performed in the act, refused even to watch it any longer. "I always sit in a back room and pray," she said. Wallenda was adamant. "The rest of life," he said, "is just time to fill in between...
...speaker is William Norris, a Nebraska farmer's son who learned about computers when he was a World War II Navy cryptographer (he helped to break the German code), then sold stock at $1 a share to start Control Data in Minneapolis in 1957. Last year the company had sales of $2.3 billion, and its profits rose by 42%. But Chairman Norris at 66 is doing much more than adding to his millions. While other people merely fret and fuss about hard-core unemployment, this plain-talking engineer is taking long risks to create jobs for people...
Thank you for the cover story on Cheryl Tiegs [March 6]. It warmed up a very cold and blizzard-ridden Ohio State University. It looks like spring break came three weeks early...
...members after the United Mine Workers voted down their contract offer two weeks ago. The association is dominated by its biggest members, and many of the small owners complain that the B.C.O.A.'S initial hard-line approach to the bargaining was set by large operators who wanted to break the union. Said the owner of a tiny mine in western Pennsylvania: "The big boys ran the B.C.O.A. show, no matter what we thought. They realized that [U.M.W. President] Arnold Miller was weak and a little dumb, and saw their chance to ram a pro-company contract down the union...
...fears in almost identical terms. After the Palestinian raid on Israel, in which 34 Israelis were killed and 78 injured as a hijacked bus careened wildly southward along the highway between Haifa and Tel Aviv, Sadat denounced the episode as "tragic and irresponsible," and added sadly. "Let us break this vicious circle of action and reaction, because it will lead to nothing...