Word: holes
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Normally about this time of year, conversation at suburban Detroit's Bloomfield Hills Country Club starts rotating around to how strong the autumn selling season will be. Last week Topic A at the favorite watering hole of the auto industry's top leaders was quite different. Just as they have for weeks, auto executives were buzzing with nonstop speculation as to the motives for Chairman Henry Ford II's firing last month of Lee Iacocca as Ford Motor Co. president...
...deep under the sea. While there is nearly a fifty-fifty chance of winning at blackjack, the odds of striking black gold offshore are 1 in 10-and there have been a lot of losers. Last month Continental Oil Co., having drilled a 12,000-ft. dry hole in the Baltimore Canyon off the Jersey shore, capped the test site and wrote off the $4 million loss. Last week Shell Oil, along with eight partners, having drilled deeper (14,000 ft.) and spent more ($6 million) at a nearby site, said that it too had struck a "duster...
Oleg Grabar '50, chairman of the Fine Arts department, said yesterday he is disappointed to see Boggs leave, particularly because her departure will leave a major hole in the field of 19th century painting...
There are just so many things for a creative crank and entrepreneur to do! He has to get cracking, for instance, on marketing his Katahdin Hiker, made from peeled alder, which he pays industrious Dover-Foxcroft youngsters 20? a staff for reaping. MacArthur drills a hole for a compass, brands the name on the side and plans to sell each walking stick for $1.95, with a suggested retail price of $3.99. The alternative-vehicle regatta, now in its fifth year, is never far from its sponsor's thoughts. Every June, at MacArthur's urging, riders on two, three...
...Senior Vice President J. Joseph Kruse is convinced that Miller pushed himself to practice squash and golf (his handicap is 17) primarily to spare associates the embarrassment of putting up with an inferior player who happened to be the boss. Kruse, who often golfed with Miller for $1 a hole, was mildly annoyed by his insistence on playing out a hole that he had no chance of winning-and impressed by Miller's refusal to talk later about the game. Miller, says Kruse, takes defeat hard, but when he is angry he merely becomes very quiet...