Word: elgin
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...noticed an American magazine advertisement that he felt insulted the Mexican revolutionary hero Emiliano Zapata. Over a faded photograph of Zapata, the ad recounted a story of how he threatened to execute any railroad conductor or engineer who thought to keep Zapata's guerrillas from stealing his regulation Elgin watch by wearing a cheaper variety on his wrist. "It's a good thing Zapata's gone," the ad concluded. "He'd be stealing Elgins as fast as we could make them." For $1, a reader of the advertisement might write in for a "Handsome Zapata poster...
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...interests as "industrial spying." The Swiss stake, nonetheless, is growing. Nestle has increased its holding in Libby, Mc-Neill & Libby (food canning) from 20% to 35%. Alusuisse is building a $63 million aluminum-processing plant at Lake Charles, La., and Swiss watchmakers are buying heavily into Waltham, Elgin and other U.S. companies...
...partner, so he traded Wilt to the Los Angeles Lakers, whose owner Jack Kent Cooke did not need a partner either. What Cooke needs is an N.B.A. Championship, so he offered Wilt a five-year contract totaling an estimated $1,500,000. Cooke now owns three superstars: Elgin Baylor, Jerry West and Chamberlain, and the problem may be to get three balls into the game so they can all shoot at once...
...Celtics' final victory was as complete as it was effortless: the old pros beat the young pretenders at their own game. A fast-breaking team that depends heavily on the accurate shooting of its "hot hands," Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, the Lakers were both outrun and outshot. Baylor scored 28 points and West accounted for 22, but Boston's Havlicek dropped in 40 and Howell hit for 30. The Celtics opened up a 70-50 half-time lead, and after that the Lakers never really came close. One big reason: 6-ft. 10-in. Center Russell...