Word: fastnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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S.M.T.I. tallied one goal in each of the first three periods on fast breaks...
Something Besides Guns. The fast-moving 3rd Division covers a front at least 100 miles long, operating in a deep arc that curves east from a point near Orlu. Under the iron command of Colonel Benjamin Adekunle, it is far more aggressive, daring and successful than the other two federal divisions combined, having captured the other primary strongholds of Aba and Owerri in the past month. Both towns, as well as Umuahia, are in territory originally assigned to the other divisions...
...transaction would involve trading five million shares of Xerox common stock, totaling $1.5 billion, for 19.8 million shares of C.I.T., which Xerox will value at around 70. With combined assets of $4.5 billion, the two companies are the most startling recent example of a business trend that is fast turning into a race: conglomerate mergers, or unions of companies in unrelated fields. Outwardly, Xerox and its fantastically successful photocopying machines (1967 sales: $700 million) may seem to have little in common with C.I.T., the nation's second largest finance company, which also has interests in insurance, banking and consumer...
More Strains. Macy's new top executives are more in the organization-man mold than Mr. Jack. Like Straus, President Molloy joined Macy's training squad right after Harvard ('29), later became boss of Macy's fast-growing California division. Macy's new chairman, Donald Smiley, has the salesman's open manner, yet is first to admit that he is "a nonmerchant." Macy's general attorney and then treasurer before he became vice chairman, Smiley will pursue the company's already sizable expansion program, which has added 13 new stores...
...hand you some pieces, some idea of how fast you must work when this movie gathers itself in the last minutes...