Word: complainers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...second half to the accompaniment of home-town boos But the Bears make no excuses: "It may be exciting to see the ball in the air," says Quarterback Billy Wade, "but t is just as exciting to win." And on that score, Chicago fans have little to complain about: the Bears boast nine wins, only one loss...
...ties with the country's ex-Presidents, particularly Multimillionaire Miguel Alemán, who has a large stake in Mexico City's Continental Hilton hotel, of which Trouyet is chairman. But Trouyet differs from the usual run of Mexican businessmen in two important ways. He does not complain about the government's growing ownership of Mexican business, and he has done more than anyone to encourage public share-ownership in a country where tightly held family businesses are the rule. With a philosophy that enrages the Communists, who have made him their No. 1 target in Mexican...
Most preserves are too small-and too close to big cities-to stock anything but birds; the next-door neighbor might complain if a high-velocity rifle bullet smacked through his picture window. But at Hunter's Haven, 30 miles from Knoxville, Tenn., nimrods can turn a day away from the office into a full-fledged safari. The Haven's 3,500 unfenced acres border on Great Smoky Mountains National Park and teem with native game: wild turkeys, bobcats, deer, black bears, ferocious Russian boars that can rip a man open with one slash of their...
When Swedish newspapers complain of government bureaucracy or badly muddled industry, they often wind up saying: "What's needed is a Nicolin." The man who has entered the Swedish language as a symbol of the shake-up and the clean sweep is tall, squarejawed Curt René Nicolin, 42, one of Sweden's brightest young businessmen and the chief troubleshooter for the family that controls or persuasively advises more than half of all Swedish industry, the Wallenbergs. Says Banker Marcus Wallenberg: "Nicolin has a sense and a feel for management...
When Martin tries to offset the statistics with such personal observations, his economists sometimes complain that he has not given enough weight to the staff's figures. At such times, Martin likes to paraphrase G. K. Chesterton to show that he, too, takes his polling modestly: "A drunkard uses a lamp pole for support, not for illumination...