Word: diamonds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...front (34% of the truck market) and Ford is in hot pursuit (31%). International Harvester is a distant third (12.3%), followed by G.M.C. (7.5%), Dodge (5.1%), Willys (2.7%). The rest of the market is divided up among Mack Trucks. White. Volkswagen, and such seldom-heard-of brands as Diamond T. Reo, Autocar, Available. Peterbilt and Divco. Chevy's and Ford's big lead comes from concentrating some 80% of their efforts on the popular, mass-produced light and compact trucks. This leaves the heavy-duty field wide open for smaller companies, which thrive by tailor-making trucks ranging...
...early talkies as a baby-faced crooner, later retyped himself as a good bad guy in a dozen movies, none as successful as his co-ownership (with David Niven and Charles Boyer) of Four Star Television, which had as many as 13 shows (among them: The Rifleman, Richard Diamond) going at one time; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...Princeton ended the title quests of the lacrosse and tennis teams, and the baseball squad, despite the efforts of league batting champion Mike Drummey and some outstanding hurling by Paul Del Rossi, just missed the Eastern crown. The 18-4 record was the best in some time for the diamond team, however, and it included memorable victories over Army and Navy...
Stop the World-I Want to Get Off is a tedious musicomedy apotheosis of Every-littleman, mimed with confident ineptitude by Anthony Newley. Comedienne Anna Quayle glitters like a diamond in this puddle of paste...
...cast all his pronunciamentos in language carefully calculated to endure. As if to make sure that they did, he published most of them in his book City Editor. "Pick adjectives,'' he said, "as you would pick a diamond or a mistress." He defined the newsroom as "part seminary, part abattoir," divided all sportswriters into two schools: "Gee Whiz!" and "Aw Nuts!" Freud was "that Daniel Boone of the canebrakes of the libido," New York's fiery Mayor La Guardia a man who would "bite in the clinches," the reading public a "drowsy, dangerous dinosaur." For working journalists...