Word: crediters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Late in the third period, the Alumni capitalized on the Crimson's defensive lapses and took the lead, as former all-Ivy inside Tag Sweeney '61, popped in three goals in four minutes. Sweeney really only deserves credit for assists on his first two goals, both of which were kicked in accidentally by Crimson fullback Bernie Heubner. Sweeney's third goal, however, was a well-placed driving shot from twenty-five feet...
...York City's elevated platforms. The industry blossomed in World War II, with jerry-built soft-drink and snack dispensers in three-shift war plants. But postwar prospects attracted underworld hoodlums and undercapitalized hopefuls. The industry was overbuilt, and fell into such bad repute that long-range credit was difficult to obtain...
...Pentagon's men usually do somewhat better than sandwiches and Cokes. The capital's swankiest restaurants abound with credit-card-packing contractors wining and dining hungry procurement colonels. During conventions of military officers' associations, it has become standard practice for defense firms to pick up the tab for convention banquets. Companies also maintain "hospitality suites" in convention hotels where tired brass can booze or snooze...
...wholesale business in Venezuela, and Joseph Saab, who built a bundle in South Asian mining and exporting. Saab's Development Bank has introduced modern banking to Lebanon's peasant villages, opened 35 branches in the past three years. Says he: "In even the smallest village, farmers need credit and have money hidden in the ground or under mattresses...
Quick Turn. Beirut's bankers prosper partly because they understand the unique needs and foibles of people for whom banking is a fresh experience. Many lavish spenders tell hoteliers and shopkeepers to send their bills directly to their banks, consider it an insult to have to carry credit cards to prove that they are good risks. The beauteous wife of Kuwait Millionaire Bader Almulla scorns checks, prefers to scribble notes on her calling cards ("Give this person $5,000"), which her banker is pleased to honor...