Word: competitors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...score for that last round was a sizzling 66; at the end, his nearest competitor was three strokes behind. Jack Nicklaus. Palmer's heir presumptive, wound up tied for 24th. Other pros just shrugged. Watching Palmer pocket the $9.000 winner's check. Mike Souchak shook his head. ''Here we go again.'' he murmured. "New year, same story...
...York's afternoon papers already sell for a dime. The four morning papers still sell for a nickel, but the pacesetting New York Times, anxious to keep the Herald Tribune from developing into a healthy competitor, will raise its copy price only as a desperate last resort. As for newspaper ad rates, they are dangerously high, in a period when the newspapers are getting more of a run than ever from magazines, radio...
Bent Necks. American Livestock's biggest competitor is Hartford Live Stock Insurance Co. ($1,250,000 in 1962 premiums), a subsidiary of Hartford Fire Insurance Co., which covers mostly saddle horses, cattle and dogs. New York's Animal Insurance Co. of America ($700,000 in premiums) writes most of its policies on horses; it paid the biggest loss ever on a single animal-$1,000,000, when the race horse Bally Ache died after a training accident two years...
...Competitor dailies may quail at a trend toward consolidation that has reduced the ranks of Danish dailies by 50 in the last 15 years. Tidende remains calm. After all, its only true competitor is in the family: the tabloid B.T., which has crept within 2,000 of its parent's 166,000 morning circulation. Besides, Tidende is not just a newspaper. It is a mirror into which the Dane looks each day to see himself. "Tidende is an absolutely decent paper," says Dr. Vincent Naeser, principal stockholder and great-great-grandson of Ernst Berling. "It reflects the Danish mind...
...Pont plant, Chemical Engineer Donald E. Hirsch, 38, a Du Pont employee for twelve years, was hired away by American Potash, whose plant is not yet completed. Du Pont pleaded that it had spent $15 million developing the process, and argued that Hirsch could not work for a competitor without giving away Du Pont secrets. American Potash insisted it had already acquired the knowledge necessary to set up its plant through an arrangement with Britain's Laporte Industries Ltd., and had hired Hirsch ''for experience, not specific know...