Word: cornered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evil Effects." Criticism of CIA's financial involvement-however innocuous it may have been-came from every corner of the world. Dan Mclntosh, president of the Berkeley student body, cried that as a result of the N.S.A. affair, "the credibility of U.S. students abroad is greatly damaged." Robert A. Dahl, president of the American Political Science Association, said "there are bound to be evil effects" from CIA's money funnel. Even George Meany, whose A.F.L.-C.I.O. international affiliates had long been richly endowed by the espionage agency's foundations, self-right-eously proclaimed his "natural ingrained opposition...
Five minutes later defenseman Bob Carr aimed a 35-footer into the upper left corner for a 2-0 lead. Carr faked a shot twice and used a screen by Pete Waldinger to set up his fourth goal in the last four games...
Harvard boosted its lead to 5-0 midway through the third period when Bulldog defenseman Dwight Miller took a nice setup by Harvard's Don Grimble and bulleted a 20-footer into the far corner of his own goal...
...take over Hollywood's Desilu Productions, the TV film maker controlled by Comedienne Lucille Ball, for $17 million in stock. Desilu produces four TV series (The Lucy Show, Mission: Impossible, Star Trek and You Don't Say), rents production facilities to 13 others, including I Spy and Corner Pyle. All of this earned Desilu $734,000 on revenues of $18.8 million in fiscal 1966. Charles G. Bluhdorn, 40, the Vienna-born immigrant who whipped G&W into a $317 million corporation (TIME cover, Dec. 3, 1965), sees "great potential" in the entertainment field, which now accounts...
During its best year in history, the computer industry's shipments rose 71% to 13,700 units. Giant IBM's 1966 sales jumped 19% to $4.2 billion, and some longtime losers, Sperry Rand's Univac division and Honeywell's computer-making operation, turned the profit corner in handsome fashion. But it remained for little Scientific Data Systems of Santa Monica, Calif., to print out some of the most exciting gain figures. Only five years old, S.D.S. reported 1966 sales of $55.5 million and profits of $4,300,000-both up 27% over...