Word: caps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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According to a story plot dear to makers of Army musicals, whenever a war ends the captains turn up, cap in hand, to beg the privates for civilian jobs. Four years ago at General Mills, Inc., this story was played out the other way round. When he retired after 30 years in the Air Force, four-star General Edwin William Rawlings was approached by a former World War II subordinate, Charles H. Bell, then president of General Mills and son of the founder. At Bell's urging, Rawlings signed on as a vice president of the 34-year...
...Soviet MIGs in the air space required for the prisoners'-take-off. At last, beaming like a black-bearded Santa Claus, Castro waved the prisoners toward freedom. One pilot got a vicarious sort of revenge: he gunned his plane in such a way that Fidel's cap almost flew off in the prop wash...
...many. Boxing's heroes are papier-mache champions. Hockey is gang warfare, basketball is for gamblers, and Australia is too far to travel to see a decent tennis match. Even baseball, the sportswriters' "national pastime," can be a slow-motion bore: finger resin bag, touch cap, look for sign, shake head, shake again, check first, big sigh, wind up, finally pitch. Crack! Foul ball-and the fans could be halfway to Chicago by jet. Even a good thing palls when the games go on day after day for six months. Football's pros are shrewder: they perform...
...idle hours playing the match game next door at Bleeck's, which in those days was noted for its good Dutch food and Gemütlichkeit. When his reporters came back to report failure on an assignment, he wordlessly drew from his desk drawer a Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, bulldog pipe and magnifying glass, and snooped around the floor on his knees, as if searching for a lost trail. To an upstate Tribune correspondent whose copy stood in sore need of punctuation, Walker sent a full page of commas. His ways were not without their effect...
...West Germans in the past few years have swarmed across Europe on the biggest Iand-buying spree in their history. Germans have become Europe's heaviest buyers of vacation homes in virtually every bracket, ranging from a department store tycoon's $1,000,000 pleasure dome on Cap d'Antibes to $1,500 cottages on the Mediterranean that are advertised as "your own castle in Spain." Though the stock market and their economy have leveled off, West German entrepreneurs are going ahead with plans to build new homes and hotels from the Atlantic to the Adriatic, yielding...