Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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LIFE promised to scour the world for the best pictures, to edit them with feeling for history and drama, and to publish them on fine paper?a feat made possible by the recent development of fast-drying inks, the engineering of heating units on presses to dry them immediately, and the manufacture of coated paper in rolls...
Such stock manipulations, if they occurred, are only one of Merritt-Chapman's misfortunes under Wolfson. Another is that he tried to build up and broaden the company too fast. Bled by such acquisitions as the unprofitable New York Shipbuilding Corp., the firm's profits and dividends have been dropping; in 1966, there was a loss of $740,000 and no dividend at all. To halt the drain, Wolfson sold off a paint company, a small steel mill, the company's derrick division and a small shipyard, but the future seems so stormy that liquidation...
Mike Aron, Dan Orlovsky, and Dean Rau sparked Eliot with hot shooting as Master Finley's boys repeatedly used the fast break to smash Kirkland's zone press. Eliot's free lance offense outran and out-shot Kirkland's patterned attack which suffered from the loss of two of its offensive stars...
...annoyed by the sluggishness of the Foreign Service, Bohlen says "Kennedy wasn't impatient with the Foreign Service. The problem is that when people first come to government, they expect the Service to come up with black and white answers. They want them clear-cut and they want them fast. Things are just too complicated for that...
Schmidt is the key to the team. A fast, hard-shooting point man, he leads Eliot in scoring. His rink-length rushes initiate many of the scoring chances, and his strong blue-line play keeps much of the action away from the goalie...