Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More Positives. Wall Street has denied Sarnoff high marks for the St. Regis deal for the simple reason that the paper company has not been growing as fast as RCA has. A stodgily managed firm in a cyclical industry, St. Regis earned $30.3 million last year, a 22% decline from the year before, but has managed to improve profits slightly so far in 1968. Although RCA stock dropped sharply following the merger announcement, Sarnoff insisted that "it's an excellent deal. The positives far outnumber the negatives...
Died. Lee Tracy, 70, veteran actor, who came to epitomize the fast-talking, wisecracking newsman during a career that spanned nearly half a century; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. After a successful start in 1928 as a brash reporter in Broadway's The Front Page, Tracy played variations on the same role in Clear All Wires (1933) and Power of the Press (1943). He reached the top in 1964, when he played the aging ex-President in The Best...
...Kenyon, "what worked best" for Harrison was a fast break offense. Harrison also tailored his strategy to the individual talents of his players, and he hopes that the same kind of well-planned power offense will give the Crimson an impressive scoring punch...
Andy Meltzoff and Rick Barton are two freshmen with a great deal of potential. Their main problems appear to be a lack of experience and a reluctance to start at a fast pace. Hunt said that one thing freshmen teams must learn is not to fall behind early in the race...
...library goes on collecting as fast as ever--building on its strengths and working on areas of weakness. In the late 1950's, for example, the library began collecting Oriental manuscripts, of which it had only a few. "There were opportunities, the prices weren't high, and there wasn't much competition," Hofer says. "It goes like that. We use our money well...