Word: foxes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...conglomerate that operates one of the nation's largest movie chains. That kind of talk about the science-fiction movie Star Wars finds avid listeners among investors and stockbrokers disgusted by the aimless zigs and zags of a dispirited market. The price of shares in 20th Century-Fox, the maker of Star Wars, has more than doubled since the film opened in 32 theaters four weeks ago, leading a boom in movie and entertainment stocks generally. MGM has roared from $16 to $24.25 this year, Columbia Pictures shares have doubled to $15.75, and even Boston-based General Cinema Corp...
...Shirts. Produced at a cost of $10 million, Star Wars by most estimates will gross $100 million this year alone. Fox, which owns 60% of the picture (Director George Lucas and some partners share the rest) stands to gain $30 million. Add in Fox's share of cult merchandise already inspired by the film -model spaceships, T shirts, 640,000 sound-track record albums, figurines of the movie's fantastic characters, such as Artoo-Detoo and Chewbacca-and the company stands to stash away a lot of cash. On top of that. Fox has in distribution several other...
...Fox's stock (about 90% of the outstanding shares have changed hands in the past month) is based on the expectation that Star Wars will at least triple the company's 1976 earnings of $1.41 per share. Moreover, rumors have floated around Wall Street that the company was a likely takeover candidate. But any purchaser would now have to pony up more than $70 million above the stated book value of the company, an unlikely scenario...
Seattle Slew thus entered a small enclosure of racing royalty that includes Gallant Fox, War Admiral, Count Fleet, Citation, Secretariat. And with a particular distinction: alone among the Triple Crown winners, Seattle Slew has a perfect record. The Belmont Stakes was his ninth trip to the starting gate and his ninth run to the wire as a winner. In the week before the Belmont, there was little doubt among backstretchers that Seattle Slew would complete his sweep. Secretariat Owner Penny Tweedy Ringquist, whose Spirit Level took his shot at Slew and lost, said: "Seattle Slew is head and shoulders above...
...Memorial Hall into a coffee house or beer hall so that there would be some place on campus where students and faculty members could go and talk. The report favored four-year Houses as the "ideal," although it believed the plan would have been too expensive to implement. The Fox plan, of course, has put this recommendation to rest...