Word: competitors
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Last year's winner, Pat Liles '60, the first freshman ever to win the race, had never run cross country, but with the help of a five-minute handicap from the benevolent McCurdy, romped in well ahead of his nearest competitor. Liles later went on to win his numerals as a member of the Yardling squad...
...York-to-Paris-via-the-West auto race. Surviving mud burials in Iowa, sandstorms in Montana, Roberts left his car mates in San Francisco, and they brought the battered Thomas-"the best car in the world in 1908"-into Paris on July 30, 26 days ahead of its nearest competitor (three of the six made the finish...
...exposing a Teamster-led conspiracy to take over Portland's rackets (TIME, April 8), the Portland Oregonian (circ. 232,338) sprouted a new Page One slogan: "Grand Slam of American Journalism." The Oregon Journal (181,210), which doggedly argued that there was more sham than slam to its competitor's exclusives, last week found much to savor when a jury acquitted Teamster Organizer Clyde Cardinal Crosby on charges of conspiracy to accept a bribe. Reason: Crosby had been charged with racketeering by Gambler Jim Elkins, who also led Oregonian Reporters William Lambert and Wallace Turner to the story...
PAPER-INDUSTRY MERGERS face rough ride from U.S. trustbusters, who are weighing antimerger complaints against Crown Zellerbach Corp. and Scott Paper Co. In significant first victory, FTC got world's biggest papermaker, International Paper Co., to sign consent decree agreeing not to acquire interest in any competitor for next decade. International also promised to sell its 12% stock holdings in Longview Fiber Co., a top West Coast papermaker...
Birdie Tebbetts may have looked relaxed, but he was simmering inside with the problems, hunches, gambles and indecisions of a competitor who hates to be outguessed, hates even more to lose. He remained squatly in his corner of the bench-not because he was calm but because he was a catcher. As a catcher, he had learned to do his thinking in a crouch. It is a posture that seems to hone the intellect. For catchers, once they have mastered the mask, chest pads and other "tools of ignorance," seem to make the grade as big-league managers almost...