Word: chris
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nation's biggest motorboat builder, privately owned Chris-Craft Corp., has long been considered a catch by merger-minded corporations. Both Singer Manufacturing Co. and Brunswick-Balke-Collender Co. recently made offers to Chris-Craft Chairman Harsen Alfred Smith (TIME cover, May 18, 1959). This week the prize was won by NAFI Corp. (formerly National Automotive Fibres), which has diversified into oil and television. The price: $40 to $45 million in cash. NAFI is controlled by the Wall Street brokerage firm of Shields & Co., one of whose partners is famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny'') Shields Sr. (TIME cover...
...Chris-Craft the sale marks the end of a family saga that began in 1894 when Chairman Smith's grandfather installed a naphtha-gas engine in a homemade rowboat and began selling rides...
...more favorable breaks for the varsity is the return to eligibility of Chris Norris, who starred as a freshman last season. Unfortunately, though, official grades may not come through in time for him to play. The lines will remain the same, and Bob Bland will be out to keep his undefeated record as goalie
...Debate. In the President's office, Chris Herter told Ike that on the basis of the record no agreement was in sight...