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...company should be a Wimbledon sponsor. To illustrate the importance of research and learning from mistakes, McCormack writes of an episode in which he tried to sell John De Lorean, then head of General Motors' Pontiac division, on a new promotional campaign tied to the company's Indianhead logo. De Lorean's bemused response...
...first 150 million ministamps, featuring an 1877 Indianhead penny against a tan background, will go on sale Jan. 11 in Kansas City, Mo. Next day, post offices in Hartford, Memphis, Portland, Ore., and Richmond, will begin selling them...
...mile-long sector held by troops of the U.S. 2nd (Indianhead) Division lies athwart the probable path of any infantry thrust at Seoul. "There they are, right in the way if the bastards decide to come on over," says an American colonel at the headquarters of the U.S.-U.N. military mission. "Once something starts, we are at war. We will have no time to ask whether we want to be in this war at this time, because American troops are going to be fighting for their lives." It has been argued that the G.I.s should be replaced by South Korean...
...artist's model is surviving the art. At 53 years of age, the U.S. Indianhead nickel is now vanishing like a lost tribe. But at 103, Seneca Chief John Big Tree, one of the three men who posed for the 5? bas-relief by Sculptor James Earle Fraser, has suffered little depreciation. Chief Big Tree has so much mettle, in fact, that he traveled down from his home near Syracuse, N.Y., to help the Chase Manhattan Bank observe the 100th anniversary of the first U.S. nickel. The celebration featured a nickelodeon, a cigar-store Indian and a carrousel buffalo...
...Cleveland Indians and the Boston Red Sox wound up deadlocked for the lead at season's end-with the Yankees a bare two games behind-has the American League had a pennant race to compare. In five months the lead has changed hands as often as an Indianhead penny. Yogi Berra's Yankees, crippled as they were by injuries, have been in first place seven times; Al Lopez' White Sox, the punchless wonders, have visited there on eleven separate occasions; and Hank Bauer's Baltimore Orioles have tried twelve times to build themselves a permanent nest...