Word: colts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...natural from the businessmen's viewpoint. They have too often been disappointed by premature forecasts of prosperity by Washington's erstwhile prophets of boom. "I'm prepared to be optimistic, but I think there is a significant credibility gap between the economic forecasts and reality," says Colt Industries President David Margolis...
...prime example of Whittingham's thesis that the best way to get a horse to run fast is to train him slowly. When the late Publisher Harry Guggenheim entrusted the big bay colt to Whittingham in 1969, the veteran trainer knew he had something special. "Nothing's going to catch Ack Ack at short distances," he said. "The only question...
Miami defensemen got in a few decisive licks of their own. In addition to manhandling Colt Quarterback Unitas, they combined for one of the most exquisitely executed maneuvers-this side of the Bolshoi Ballet. It came in the third quarter after Miami Safety Dick Anderson picked off a tipped Unitas pass. Rallying around him in a kind of free-form flying wedge, Dolphin blockers cut down six Colt tacklers in sudden, shattering succession, as Anderson raced on unmolested for the score. Says Shula, still lost in the wonder of it all: "It was one of the great plays...
Next day the Baltimore Colts stampeded over the hapless Cleveland Browns. Led by End Bubba Smith, the Colt defense blocked two field-goal attempts, intercepted three passes and smeared Brown Quarterback Bill Nelsen four times. The big difference, though, was Colt Running Back Don Nottingham, a squat (5 ft. 10 in., 210 Ib.) rookie from Kent State who was the 441st of the 442 players picked in last year's pro football draft. Called in to replace injured Norm Bulaich, "Bowling Ball" Nottingham rolled for 92 yds. and two touchdowns as the Colts outclassed the Browns...
Died. Yoichiro Makita, 68, president of Japan's fifth largest corporation, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries; of complications from a peptic ulcer; in Tokyo Makita became head of the mammoth company in 1969, set out immediately to forge an agreement allowing Chrysler Motors to market Mitsubishi's Colt in the U.S., the first such deal between Detroit and a Japanese manufacturer. Makita took unabashed pride in the fact that Mitsubishi's chief products during World War 11 were warships and Zero fighter planes, and was an outspoken advocate of Japan's rearmament "Now that our G.N.P. is third...