Word: game
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Floating Crap Game...
Successful as the scheme proved, the oil-tanker business remains a fragile floating crap game in international finance. Fortunately for Onassis, the demand for petroleum imposed by the Marshall Plan, the Korean War and now Viet Nam has kept the tankers cruising through the past 30 years at an ever accelerating pace. He has also been aided along the way by Oilman John Paul Getty, 75, whom Onassis admired and courted...
Late in every presidential campaign there comes a time for Cabinet making, the traditional guessing game about the candidate's preferences for the top posts in his Administration. In Hubert Humphrey's camp last week, the speculation went beyond that stage. The word was that Humphrey, if elected, might create two additional Cabinet posts: one for youth, the other for consumers. Still, most of the guessing ranges around the men who might fill traditional Cabinet posts in the next Administration. Some possibilities...
...building is adorned with abstract sculptures by Giacometti and De Rivera, and its occupant takes particular pride in the company's futuristic new logo, which is emblazoned in 24-ft.-high letters near the top of the 70-floor building. Yet Sarnoff seems to be playing the merger game, a favorite pastime of new-breed executives, with an eye more for posterity than for the present. He dismisses St. Regis' problems as the result of "a temporary overcapacity in the paper industry." Adds Sarnoff: "We would rather have a company with a sound growth rate than...
Harvard's record so far is 2-1. The Crimson is traditionally strong. This year's first game loss was the first in 24 games...