Word: jim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...invaded Minnesota for a four-game series. Twins Pitcher Dave Boswell tried to sneak in a waist-level fastball; Scott drove it 365 ft. into the rightfield stands. Then Al Worthington experimented with a wide, high curve; George hit that 365 ft. into the leftfield stands. Finally, in desperation, Jim Grant wound up and threw straight at Scott's knees-then turned around sadly to watch the ball sail 443 ft. into the centerfield bleachers...
...people will have more power in shaping the answers than James Michael Roche, the president of General Motors. At 59, Jim Roche (rhymes with coach) is an unlikely tycoon. He is one of the few top American industrialists who never went to college and one of the few Roman Catholics to reach the top at G.M., where most of the hierarchs belong to the same Masonic lodge. He often goes to Mass before beginning his twelve-hour working day. In an industry driven by cool, computerized accountants and tough-talking salesmen, Roche is a folksy sort who never shows...
Last week, in the hushed, unhurried atmosphere of the 14th floor executive suite of G.M.'s grey stone fortress in Detroit, Jim Roche cogitated aloud about the state of business. "If anything is happening to the economy now," he said, "it is perhaps a slight dip. It's obvious that a dip here and there is a very normal thing. I don't think it's going to be a serious drop...
Hunches & Hopes. Jim Roche arrived at the top just in time for trouble. Even when Detroit was in the midst of selling an astounding 8,700,000 cars in the U.S. last year-39% more than in 1960 and 21% more than in 1964-its computers were beginning to turn up some early warning signs for the current year. The industry's '65 sales record was artificially swollen by sales of 300,000 cars that were ordered but not delivered during a strike late in '64; moreover, sales last year ran more than 600,000 above...
Army was the last team to top the Crimson, and they dit it outdoors at West Point two years ago. Bill Straub, the long distance predecessor of sensational Jim Warner, did Harvard in with a double in the mile and two-mile...