Word: jacke
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...raises of 4% in the first year and 3% in each of the next two, bonus payments of 8% the first year and 3% the second, improved health benefits and a 20% cutback in mandatory overtime. Boeing considered the offer "generous," said spokesman Russell Young. But union official Jack Daniels of District 751 in Seattle dismissed it as "peanuts," pointing to Boeing's profit of $614 million in 1988 and $356 million in the first half of this year...
Laughing all the way, Braden has become a celebrity in the sports world. Jack Kramer, the 1947 Wimbledon champion, calls him "the world's best all- around tennis coach," who can improve the game of anyone "from a beginner to a champion." Braden was featured on the cover of the August issue of Tennis magazine. In television commercials he is touting Tennis Our Way, a videotape he made with Arthur Ashe and Stan Smith, and millions of sports fans have chuckled at his commentaries on cable and network TV. The best known of his five books, Vic Braden's Tennis...
...cents in my Levi's when I started college," Braden says, "and 37 cents when I finished. I had to save up to make a phone call." Later, while coaching tennis at the University of Toledo, he played in professional tournaments with a group of six stars (Jack Kramer and Pancho Gonzalez, among others) and, in Braden's words, six "donkeys," including himself and Chris Evert's father Jimmy. "The donkeys made a lot of people famous," Braden recalls. "The stars would beat us fast and then go out and see the city...
SENIOR EDITORS: Charles P. Alexander, Martha Duffy, Jose M. Ferrer III, Russ Hoyle, James Kelly, Stephen Koepp, Johanna McGeary, Christopher Porterfield, George Russell, Thomas A. Sancton, William E. Smith, Claudia Wallis, Jack E. White, Robert T. Zintl...
Much too late the film touches on Jack's desire for the extreme, his love for jazz's fire and passion. At the end we are unsatisfied with the resolution of Jack's (and Suzie's) hope for sublimity while living in the world of the mundane...