Word: crowning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barring all the limitations, the '78 Phils have the horses to win the Eastern crown for the third straight year. They have the best fielding third baseman in the game, a Polish sausage who clouts 130 RBIs a season in left field, a superlative shortstop, the '77 Cy Young winner, a good bullpen and several other bonafide stars. And then some...
Shehab A. Madi Office of the Crown Prince Amman, Jordan...
...enough that two weeks ago the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Lance and his friends with violating federal law by trying to conceal the extent of their purchases of Financial General shares. Lance's wife LaBelle and four Arabs, including the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Kamal Adham, reported to be head of the Saudi Arabian intelligence service, had bought 20% of the stock. They apparently coordinated their purchases so that nobody had more than 4.9% (5% or more would have required a report to the SEC). Without admitting any wrongdoing, Lance and others then signed...
...luck." Cirker, 60, has been displaying that talent for 35 years. "I graduated from City College in 1936," he recalls. "The teeth of the Depression. I had studied art and science, and I was attracted by publishing. The only job available in that profession was shipping clerk for Crown. I was glad to take it." Six years later Cirker and his young wife, Blanche, took a deep breath and plunged their meager savings-a few hundred dollars-into a publishing house. "We didn't choose Dover for romantic English connotations," says Blanche, the company's executive vice president...
...really rough play begins after the southern whistle-stop, when the Crimson will duke it out with national powers Princeton and Yale, and a couple of darkhorses, possibly Columbia, for the Eastern crown...