Word: brunswick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...foolhardy venture: Malcolm Bricklin, 36, an unconventional millionaire from Philadelphia who sometimes wore Indian beads, thought he could start an auto-manufacturing business from scratch. To the surprise of many, Bricklin, who had made his original fortune running hardware stores, actually acquired two plants in Canada's New Brunswick province and started making his unconventional Bricklin cars. Now two secured creditors and the New Brunswick government, which had put up more than $20 million in cash and loan guarantees to obtain 67% control of Bricklin Canada Ltd., have placed the company in receivership, closing the plants. Bricklin himself proclaimed...
Predictably, consumers are less enthusiastic in areas where unemployment has climbed well above the national average of 8.9%. In hard-pressed Maine, surveys by the Bangor Daily News and Brunswick Times-Record show that many rebates are being saved or used to pay off debts. In Buffalo, where the jobless rate has reached 14.5%, a large savings bank reports that 150 to 200 rebate checks are being deposited each day. Such activity does not necessarily hurt the economy. Checks that are saved and used to buy consumer goods later will help spread the economic stimulus over a longer period...
...Harvard golf team will depart today for New Brunswick, N.J., and a chance at the ECAC fall title. A practice round will be held this afternoon in preparation for the 18-hole tournament tomorrow...
...captains Steve McConnel and Tom Yellin will be making the New Brunswick trip along with Chip Ricketts, John Bartlett, and either Peter Zurkow or Alex Vik, who were tied after yesterday's final qualifying round...
...Yorker who founded and edits the crusading liberal weekly Maine Times, makes an oblique case for limiting growth. He does so in the form of eloquent descriptions of the state that he clearly loves. There is the January morning when the bay near Cole's house in Brunswick becomes a 30-sq.-mi. ice rink, and he glides across it alone, watching the sun and clouds pass in perfect reflection under his skates. With unabashed enthusiasm, Cole explains his lifetime love affair with Roccus saxatilis (striped bass), that "master of tumbling currents and white-water turbulence." Like a poet...