Word: coatings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Borrow and Buy. Such sports-struck businessmen, and other Clevelanders like them, did not get together by accident. They were mobilized by Nick James Mileti, 42, son of Sicilian immigrants, who has traded his attorney's narrow lapels for the velour suits and mink coat of a promoter. He makes a business of turning rich fans -and ordinary folk as well -into investors. Since he made sport a career six years ago, the former suburban prosecutor, Jaycee BOUTELLE president and housing consultant has created an athletic empire worth $40 million...
...dozens of flashcards of planes and tanks, and he knows all the numbers and countries they belong to. In a back pocket, he has dozens of coat hangers twisted into spears. In his front pocket, when he is not brandishing it, is a large bunch of squashed tooth brushes, bundled up in hundreds of rubber bands into one big bomb...
...told him a story," Singer said. "I once went into a tailor's in Warsaw and asked for a coat with crooked pockets. He told me I didn't need to ask, I could ask for straight pockets and they would still be crooked...In the same way, since humor is based on suffering, we will have humor for a million years...
...introduction of a state income tax in 1971, $900,000 has gone into a "humanization" program, ensuring patients 24-hour care and more cheerful surroundings. A frequent visitor to Orient State, the Governor chose to celebrate the program's second anniversary a different way. He donned a white coat and walked the wards for a couple of hours as a psychiatric-aide trainee...
This casual form fits the author like an old sports coat. Indeed, he used it ten years ago in Powers of Attorney. The characters are distinctly and intentionally minor. This includes Beekman ("Beeky") Ehninger, whose amiably flaccid presence is spread thinly but creamily throughout the book. At 56, Beeky is more legal lap dog than beagle. By his own admission, he cares more about the firm than he does about the law. His main contribution to Shepard, Putney & Cox was to have saved the firm in 1946 by retiring the aging, respected founder and then pirating two brilliant school chums...