Word: comely
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Riklis is not swearing off mergers entirely, but he is showing an unusual interest in such mundane goals as cutting costs and expanding markets. By internal growth alone, he figures that in five years he can more than double his profits, which he estimates will come to about $47 million in 1969. Since he took over Schenley (1968 sales: $550 million) last fall, he has shaved its operating costs by $10 million. He did it partly by firing surplus executives and partly by setting up inventory procedures that, he says, are at last forcing wholesalers "to learn how to order...
...toga and a wreath on Gore Vidal and he could pass as a Roman at Nero's court. You know, the cheerfully disillusioned fellow in the corner who always said the empire would come to a bad end and-now that the fire has started-is absolutely the life of the party...
Nobody can beat the exhilaration of a pessimist who thinks the end-time has come. Writing slightly bad-tasting novels (Myra Breckinridge) and bland-tasting plays (Visit to a Small Planet) is just the start for Vidal. He keeps busy as an opinion maker, staging shoot-outs with William Buckley on TV and churning out some of the liveliest doomsday journalism ever, mostly in today's essay form, the book review...
...nothing less than a revival of all Christendom. It was likely that sooner or later these conflicting views would be explored in fiction; it is only strange that the first credible and moving novelistic exposition of the crisis of faith among clergy and laity that followed Vatican II should come out of Australia...
...Bruins, the Stanley Cups poses the choice between tightening their game to conform to traditional Stanley Cup play or continuing to play the wide-open, bruising game that has propelled them to the first division this year. The problem, and there is always a problem with breaking traditions, will come when the Bruins' tough reputation meets NHL officiating...