Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hurt, but lest the revolt further the movement for pro players to have more say in management, he tried to stand up to the big guys. He would not be pressured, he said, and if they did not like it, well, he would take his football team and go home...
...quick trades and acquired Gordon ("Red") Berenson, a bench warmer for the New York Rangers. Berenson, 29, the son of a Regina, Sask., fireman, had all the makings of a top scorer. He learned his swift and violent trade as a boy, skating on the frozen ponds of his home town, but like many young pros, he had found it hard to make a dent in the talent-heavy NHL. As a teenager, he turned down several pro offers in order to earn a degree in business at the University of Michigan, where he was an All-America hockey player...
...more in the second period to turn a hat trick for the first time in his N.H.L. career. "I dove into the net for that puck to save it as a memento," he recalls. As it happened, it was a slightly premature gesture. In the remaining minutes, Red slammed home three more goals to become the first N.H.L. player in 24 years to score six times in a single game...
Costlier for Consumers. The rising cost of credit is beginning to affect consumers as well as businessmen. In California, the giant Bank of America and several savings and loan associations lifted their minimum interest rate on home mortgages from 7¼% to 7½%. At week's end Manhattan's First National City Bank increased by one-fourth of 1% its charges for auto, consumer and home-improvement loans. The true annual interest rates on some personal loans rose to more than...
...envied Italian industrialist-the Numero Uno-is Giovanni Agnelli, the head of automaking Fiat. Turin-based Fiat, which has produced four out of every five cars on Italy's roads, has done more than any other Italian firm to shape the country's new affluence at home and influence abroad. "Agnelli has a mythology not unlike President Kennedy's," writes British Journalist Anthony Sampson in The New Europeans. "Clearly his presence fills some kind of psychological...