Word: fixes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hogan charges that New York City Gambler Joseph Hacken. 41, was the fixer. His partner was David Budin, 28, onetime basketball captain at Brooklyn College and a junior high school physical-education teacher until last fall, when he was arrested and charged with trying to fix a Michigan-Oregon football game. To buy the accused basketball players, many of them products of New York high schools, says Hogan. Gambler Hacken and Teacher Budin supplied spending money, dates and ultimately bribes of $500-$1,000 a game. They even had a farm system to buy freshmen players before they reached...
...along on the hunt, e.g., Memsahib nakwisha piga nyati; tia chini ya kitanda ("My wife has shot a buffalo; put it under the bed"), or Hapana taka piga simba leo. Tengeneza chandarua ya mbu na tafadhali ngoja kidogo nge ("I do not want to shoot a lion today. Fix the mosquito net and please leave the room...
Reminded that two former G.E. officials testified a fortnight ago that he had given instructions for them to meet with competitors to fix prices, Paxton heatedly denied the charge. But he admitted that as he took over new divisions during his rise up the G.E. ladder, he never asked his subordinates if they had previously violated antitrust laws. "I contented myself with telling them I was unalterably opposed to this monkey business," he said. "I considered it womanish to ask a man what he had done in the past...
...wanted to know the secret of his meteoric rise. Had he won controlling stock interest in the company? No; didn't own a share. Did he have pals on the board of directors? Not even an acquaintance. Had he pioneered a new industrial process? Couldn't even fix a lawnmower. At last, one reporter asked point-blank how he got the job then. "Oh, that's simple," answered the new president. "A guy in golf spikes stepped on my IBM card...
...anti-Communist literature, it comes from the fact that basically he was a very ordinary fellow. Not philosophical revulsion or a moral crisis, but outraged innocence was his ticket of leave from the party, and he writes in appropriate style, rather like an Eagle Scout who discovered that the fix was on at national headquarters...