Word: deale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...captain-elect felt that the first several games this year gave him a great deal of needed confidence and helped him feel looser and play better each week thereafter. His improvement caused coach Tom Stephenson to remark. "John was an unknown quantity at the beginning of the year, but now he's one of the top defensive ends in the league...
...wonderful charges. If a team fails in a crucial test, it is not the better team at that time, whatever it may have been before or may be after. But, to be frank, the philosophy of hoping that the better team will win is curiously involved with a good deal of believing that we (and Yale men feel this, too) shall be found to have the better team...
...should we feel secure in our assessment of character relationships, Ulmer will invariably undermine the status quo and shift the dramatic balances. Consequently, Ulmer presents dozens of ideas in terms of changing moral alternatives, choices presented both to characters and audience. This becomes disturbing since the melodramas ostensibly deal with good and evil while actually wandering the vast territories in between...
...year of mammoth mergers, one of the main events came last September when Rochester's Xerox Corp. and Manhattan-based C.I.T. Financial Corp. announced plans for a union. The deal would have involved a swap of Xerox stock then worth $1.5 billion and created a hefty new conglomerate with assets of $4.5 billion. The agreement was based only on a handshake, but Xerox President C. Peter McColough cheerfully predicted that the merger would provide his company with "a much broader base than we now enjoy, enabling us to accelerate our plans in several fields...
...September announcement, costing the company's investors a paper loss of $400 million and reflecting a widespread notion that a link with solid but unspectacular C.I.T. could only tarnish Xerox as a glittering growth stock. At any rate, there were palpable signs of stockholder relief when the deal was finally dropped. In the first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange after the announcement, Xerox was bid up 6½ points to $277.25 a share...