Word: comebacking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year, no game will be easy for the Crimson. Columbia, on the verge of a comeback for several years, may be able to start moving at last with material from a good freshman team and 20 holdovers...
...essence, the 34-year-old Vesco will be making a hefty bet on an I.O.S. comeback. In return for the loan, which will pay an initial 10% a year interest, I.C.C. will get warrants to buy up to 7,500,000 shares of stock in parent I.O.S. Ltd. at $2 a share. Last week the price of those shares rallied from $2.22 to $2.82 in London. I.C.C. stands to snare a profit of $7,500,000 for every $1 that I.O.S. stock rises above $2. Vesco in addition will have what he calls "veto power over I.O.S.'s checkbook...
...management during the switch away from family control. Abs' successor is Berthold Beitz, 56. a gregarious supersalesman who had been Krupp's general manager for 14 years. Since Beitz was the prime mover behind Krupp's disastrous financial policy, the promotion represented something of a comeback...
...politics makes strange bedfellows, it also makes some fickle lovers. That, at least, is the suggestion conveyed in a new book on the President's political comeback by Jules Witcover, veteran Washington reporter for the Los Angeles Times. In The Resurrection of Richard Nixon (G.P. Putnam's Sons), Witcover maintains that former Texas Governor John Connally, a power in the state and Lyndon Johnson's closest political ally, actually worked secretly through most of the campaign to raise money for Nixon while publicly ignoring Hubert Humphrey...
Spectacular Rise. In recent years, however, venereal disease has been making a comeback. In 1965, Dr. William J. Brown of the U.S. Center for Disease Control declared that an estimated 650,000 Americans under 20 were annually contracting either syphilis or gonorrhea. Reported cases of syphilis in the past year have risen by 55% in New Jersey, 30% in New York City. Last week Dr. James McKenzie-Pollock of the American Social Health Association reported that there has been a "spectacular rise" in syphilis in the past five months and called for national emergency action to meet the problem...