Word: fifteens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frailty & Indiscretion. Fifteen years after the captain's death, the News is almost as big as ever, with 1,980,338 daily circulation (it peaked at 2,400,000 in 1947) and 3,244,667 on Sunday. It still looks and reads like the paper Joe Patterson left: full of crime, sex, human frailty and indiscretion, all jauntily regarded. But the rest of the news is in the News too. And it is still written with a skillfully crisp and colloquial flair, still gaudily bedizened by the flippest headline writers in the business (SINGER CROAKS ON HIGH...
...Rugby Club Saturday concluded its most successful season in several years. While the first fifteen ended with a respectable 4-2-1 record, the Club as a whole managed to field two complete teams with two separate schedules, upset highly-touted Princeton, outdraw the baseball team, and whip the Cricket Club at cricket...
Adding to last fall's 4-2 record, this spring the first fifteen defeated Cornell, Princeton, Wesleyan, and the Boston Rugby Club. It lost by one try or less to Yale and Brown, and tied M.I.T...
...Club's spring turnout was large enough to permit the second fifteen to play as full a schedule as the first. (In rugby, no substitutes are allowed, so fifteen players comprise a complete team.) The second unit defeated the New York Rugby Club, tied Yale, and lost to Dartmouth, Princeton, and Columbia...
...Fifteen years ago, AMF was a with only a handful of products (cigarette baking and stitching machines) and annual sales of about $12,000,000. Today with 42 plants and 19 research facilities scattered across 17 countries, AMF turns out products ranging from remote-controlled toy airplanes to ICBM launching systems. Thanks to AMF's determined pursuit of diversification and growth products, its 1960 sales were $361 million, its earnings $24 million. And in the glum opening months of 1961, the company's sales and earnings hit new first-quarter highs