Word: holderness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...astonishing thing about the men's meet was that the U.S. did not even field everyone on its first team. Injuries forced out the top three 100-meter sprinters, including the 100-yd. world record holder Bob Hayes, who sat it out for fear of aggravating a pulled leg muscle. But they were hardly missed when 200-Meter Man Henry Carr obligingly boomed home first in the 100, then in the 200, finally ran a leg on a 1,600-meter relay team that won by 70 yds. Milers Tom O'Hara and Dyrol Burleson had to scratch...
...police lieutenant, off duty and in civilian clothes, heard the ruckus, flashed his badge, ordered the youngsters to quiet down. He was Thomas Gilligan, 36, a 6-ft., 200-lb. veteran of 16 years on the force and the holder of 19 citations, including several awards for disarming dangerous suspects. According to the police report, the Powell boy went after Gilligan with a knife. Gilligan ordered him to stop, but Powell kept coming. Then, "in defense of himself," Gilligan fired his revolver three times. The third shot went wild-but the first two killed...
Most major credit-card companies grimly absorb these losses themselves. But to protect holders against laws making cardholders liable for charges until their loss has been reported, a St. Louis company called Saf-Card Inc. has announced a plan by which, for $20 annually, Saf-Card will indemnify the holder for up to $10,000 in purchases run up on a card by champagne spenders with mickey finn morals...
...other events, Yale's world-record holder Wendell Mottley fell sprawling at the tape, but still took the 440-yard run in 0:47.6. Penn State's Ernie Krombolz won the javelin with a 227' 9 1/2" throw, and Morgan State took the mile relay with a meet record 3:10.3 clocking...
...largest company will prosper so long as the nation itself does. A.T.&T. has so many stockholders that 20,500 of them are named Smith, and 100 die every day. Three-quarters of them own fewer than 100 shares, and the biggest holder, Wall Street's Merrill Lynch, keeps most of its 3,600,000 shares for small-customer accounts.* No wonder that Wall Street dubs A.T.&T. "the widows' and or phans' stock," and shareholders affectionately refer to it as "Ma Bell...