Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Quite a season it promises to be, too. Johnny Unitas' knee is fine; Joe Namath's isn't so hot, but his arm is. Season-ticket sales are running 20% ahead of last year. The N.F.L. and the American Football League have kissed and made up, which means that Commissioner Pete Rozelle is now free to entertain antitrust suits by impoverished players and would-be franchise owners-while he simultaneously tries to sell Congressman Emanuel Celler on legislation that would exempt pro football from antitrust actions...
...public-service scholar and a proper servant of the Crown, he says, his only ethical course was to get the painting properly identified. Besides, as he somewhat testily adds, the Crown collection "already has a great number of Rubenses." Millar sought out Christie's Carritt, diffidently asked: "Isn't that a rather important picture you've got in your sale?" Carritt took a quick stroll through the Hill, cast an eye at Paris, exclaimed, "My God!" and withdrew the work from the sale...
Sandy Koufax was trying to explain how it felt to lose a ball game. "Have you ever tripped and fallen at a party or spilled coffee on your lap?" asked the Los Angeles Dodgers' ace. "Isn't there something worse than the pain it self? Isn't it the embarrassment? Well, imagine being embarrassed in front of 50,000 people." Last week, Koufax lost - in front of 50,840 screaming fans...
...proven evidence to support it. Asked by a U.S. student for a simple explanation of his theory, Stannard sent a copy of his Nature article and included some dis arming advice: "If you don't understand the theory, it doesn't matter, because it probably isn't true...
...might point out that it has risen from 60th place to third place among underwriters without any compunctions about acting on behalf of trusts and corporations as a dealer of large secondary distributions, where the commissions to the salesmen are five times as large as for normal brokerage. Isn't the customer entitled to be told when buying a stock on a secondary distribution that the salesman is getting extra compensation for selling him that particular stock...