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...least one occasion, and animal got the best of Fleming. A bull rider was sitting in the chute waiting for his turn and his best started thrashing around. When Fleming looked over, the bull had pinned his rider against the back of the chute...
Bendix Corp. was locked in a bitter and ultimately losing takeover battle in September as company directors huddled to plot strategy. Among their hurried decisions: a so-called golden parachute for Chairman William Agee and 15 other Bendix officers. The chute, which was designed to protect the executives following a buyout by another company, guarantees Agee an $805,000 annual salary for five years even if he is fired. That lucrative arrangement was presumably authorized by the board's compensation committee and approved by the directors, as is typical in such cases. But at Bendix there was a twist...
...Coach [1 rank] Haggerty had let us know during the course of the race that in order to win we needed to pass Cornell's third and fourth men." Rippy said, some time after the race. "So we made out move in the finishing chute...
...will hold as many as 20 taped feature films. The customer puts his charge card in the slot and watches previews of the available films. He makes a choice; the machine runs a credit check, relays rental information to a central computer and sends his rental tape down the chute, all in about two minutes. If the MovieMat seems designed to fulfill the cin-éaste's nightmare-movies as the ultimate junk food-then RENTABETA, a Los Angeles company, may make the medium as handy as paperbacks. For as little as $2.95 a day, RENTABETA provides a playback...
Most of those arrested were first offenders, and in return for their "no contest" pleas were given the option of either paying their fines outright, giving a pint of blood to the Red Cross, or doing volunteer work. Chute said last night, adding that he opted to give blood...