Word: hawk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...freshmen Jill Robertson and Ingrid Sarapuu of Radcliffe trounced Sally Hawk and Carol Majdalany, 6-1, 6-2, in the number one doubles. In the number two doubles, Cliffies Donna Brorby, and Maureen Crane, eased by Jackie Nienaber and Cathy Pomiecko, 10-8, in a proset...
...more intense. McCarthy refused to support Humphrey until it was too late and--despite his protestations to the contrary--he probably contributed to the Nixon victory. And to further bewilder the liberal constituency McCarthy proceeded to give up his seat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to a hawk and to support Russell Long against Edward Kennedy for Senate Majority Whip...
...Field Activities. And scared a lot of owners. Two years ago, when the Red Sox traded Ken ("the Hawk") Harrelson, the American League's Player of the Year, to the Cleveland Indians, Woolf craftily advised the flamboyant outfielder to "retire," on the grounds that the move would jeopardize the Hawk's business interests in Boston. In a subsequent meeting with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Woolf worked out a "substantial compensation" for his client's supposed business losses. Harrelson promptly unretired. "When we went to New York," Woolf proudly explains, "the sport world didn't understand the importance...
...growth is the "multilevel distributorship." Koscot sells "distributorships" for up to $5,000. Distributors get a 65% discount on the list price of the products and generally distribute them through supervisors, or subdistributors, who get a 55% discount. Women called "beauty advisers" are hired to hawk the products door to door. Anybody who buys such a distributorship can also collect $1,950 for each friend or relative he recruits to buy another $5,000 distributorship-or $500 for each person he brings in to buy a $2,000 supervisorship. Thus, almost everyone tries to sell distributorships and supervisorships instead...
PABLO PICASSO is nearly as old as the electric light bulb. He was nearing his quarter-century by the time the Wright brothers lumbered into the air at Kitty Hawk. He was well known by the start of World War I and a celebrity when it ended. Since then, his reputation has increased exponentially, to the point where the shape of 20th century art is unimaginable without him. This week Picasso turned 90, and his birthday summoned a procession of tribute bearers. The Louvre has turned over its Grande Galerie to a selection of Picasso's work, the first...