Word: game
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Kane found the three weeks he spent traveling with the Tigers a kind of on-the-job vacation. As a ball fan who grew up in Washington, D.C., and learned the game by watching the ever-losing Senators, he found it pleasant to be with a winner for a change. "While my associates were involved with more serious problems-convention coverage and urban warfare-I was utterly consumed with baseball. I sat through some fifteen ball games, including a doubleheader that had a 19-inning second game. I was never bored for a minute...
Died. Dennis O'Keefe, 60, breezy cinemactor of the 1930s, '40s and '50s, who played in scores of films, including Hold That Kiss, Brewster's Millions, T-Men; of cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif. Edward Flanagan was his name, bit parts and stunting were his game when O'Keefe was discovered by Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe...
Sometimes the biggest losers in the game of corporate musical chairs are those companies doing the hiring. By finding room at the top for outsiders, they risk discomfiting homegrown executives who are passed over in the process. Says Los Angeles Management Consultant Thomas J. Johnston: "Much depends on who you bring in. If the man has stature that everybody recognizes, you have no problem...
...nothing attracts corporations more than recreation. Recent takeovers have included those by Chicago's Victor Comptometer of the company that makes Daisy BB guns, by Cleveland's "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. of Rawlings Sporting Goods, by Ling-Temco-Vought of Wilson Sporting Goods, and by General Mills of game-making Parker Bros. Last month Fuqua Industries, a fast-growing conglomerate whose sales are above $60 million, reached far beyond its landlocked Atlanta base to buy Pacemaker Corp., a New Jersey boatbuilder with estimated sales of $25 million a year...
...last count, some 26 million Americans were going down to the sea-or lake or river-in 5,400,000 power boats. Many of them, of course, have become experts at the game, and even the neophytes usually get home in one piece. The water, contrary to legend, is more forgiving than, say, the thin air or a concrete abutment. Even so, the Coast Guard responded to 43,000 "Mayday"* distress calls last year, the vast majority of them from power-boatmen, who also accounted for 875 of the 1,312 deaths on the water...