Word: elie
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, that is a condensed version of what has actually happened to United Fruit Co.-famed in the U.S. for Chiquita bananas, but known to generations of Latin Americans as "el Pulpo" (the Octopus). The Talmudist is Eli Black, who in 1970 merged United Fruit into a food-based conglomerate that he was assembling, and has proceeded to change its operations, its image, and even its name-to United Brands Co. The payoff: United Brands has gone from a net loss of $24 million in 1971 to a net profit of $10 million for this year's first half...
Dewey Hickman won the 120 high hurdles in a sluggish 15.2 time, and Mike Horner took the 220. The Harvard-Yale 440-yard relay closed out the Crimson-Eli scoring with a 55.0 second triumph...
...weather was horrendous for track and field competition yesterday, forcing four field events indoors, but it made little difference to the Harvard-Yale thinclads in their meet with a squad of Oxford-Cambridge, England athletes. The Crimson-Eli tandem crushed the visiting English team, 11-5, to win its fourth straight in this international series...
...Crimson lacrosse team capped its '73 campaign rather sloppily Saturday, as even a second-half rally failed to catch a hard-hitting bunch from Yale, in the 6-5 Eli triumph...
Although ranked sixth in New England last week over Harvard's ninth place, Eli scoring has been dismal, with a 3.4 goal average. The only threat for Yale is Baltimorean Bruce Smith, who has accounted for six of Yale's 17 points in 0-5 Ivy play...