Word: guns
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High Voltage Gains. A.R.D. was founded in 1946 by French-born Doriot, Massachusetts Investors Trusts lateChairman Merrill Griswold and Vermont's former U.S. Senator Ralph Flanders. Doriot soon took over as president, and the company took a loss on its very first investment-a degreasing gun. It lost money consistently for the first four years. It also failed to see much future in Ampex or Varian Associates, which went on to rise high in the space...
With both teams shooting poorly, rebounding became the key factor in the game, and here the Elis' really rough board play proved decisive. More than half of the Yale field goals were hit from close in, many on tip-ins. Rick Kaminsky, the Elis' big gun, had a bad night, scoring only 15 points, and making only six of 17 shots...
...world's oldest profession, from pay-as-you-guzzle drinking parties. But everyone contributes, and everyone wants to dance. Says Salgueiro's Carnival Director Joaquim Casemiro, known to his fellows as "Droopy Drawers": "I direct them only with a whistle. I don't need a gun or a knife. I've never had to shoot anyone yet in Salgueiro to get them to dance...
...Williams, one of the sponsors of the Administration bill in Congress, has long been associated with the plight of migrant workers. Last weekend he and his staff initiated a miniature Service Corps of their own by traveling to Gun Springs, Va. to repair three shacks in that depressed area...
...presented himself at the Baghdad Hotel for the inevitable press conference with the swarm of foreign correspondents, an ordeal he seemed to regard as in some ways worse than the historic night of the coup itself. More than a hundred shouting reporters and photographers pushed aside his tommy-gun-waving guard and crowded around Iraq's boss to hear Aref speak freely about the aims and purposes of the new government. He said something about an end to one-man rule, friendship with all Arab states, and the "overcoming of all the difficulties facing the Iraqi people...