Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...GUARDS: John Skinners, Xavier, 6 ft. 3 in., 255 Ibs.; and Rufus Mayes, Ohio State, 6 ft. 5 in., 250 Ibs. Few college guards are big enough to hold their own in the pros, and the pros usually fill the position with the fastest and most agile college tackles. In the case of Shinners, however, this need not be true. He is a stick-out at guard, with "great maneuverability, good lateral movement and the speed to pull out and lead sweeps. He's a winner-period." Mayes is a converted tight end with "excellent balance, quick feet...
...early days of broadcast TV. "We did everything-put on the show, ran transmitters, jumped in front of the cameras," he says. "We had no audience-there were only a handful of TV sets in the country-but we had to keep on the air to hold our license." Goldmark still maintains a workshop in his Stamford, Conn., home, in which he repairs his own TV sets and tinkers with his latest experiments...
...REAL ESTATE: To avoid paying income taxes, some American real estate owners hold large sums of cash in numbered Swiss accounts. How can they ever use the money? They have the Swiss bank arrange to "buy" some of their properties with money from their own anonymous accounts. In that way, the money is repatriated to the U.S. One real estate man, for example, "sold" a piece of property for nearly $1,000,000 but did not have to pay taxes on the deal since the property had cost no more than that when he purchased it. There was a further...
...currency, might well be raised in value by 5% or possibly 10%. Other strong currencies-the Italian lira, Dutch guilder and Swiss franc-could be raised somewhat less. The pound and the French franc might be devalued by 5% or so. Other currencies would move up or down, or hold their existing parity against the dollar, according to their relative strength...
...mellower moments, Norris seemed content to let Watson's IBM hold the overwhelming lead: "I want Control Data to be the Ford of the com puter industry." Though few people expect that IBM will be broken up, Control Data's suit may force the giant to back up a step or two. At the very least, it may prevent premature announcements of computers that are not quite ready to live up to expectations...