Word: lions
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...Columbia guide, Coach Bob Naso comments on certain aspects of Lion football. The following is his brief dissertation on winning...
...Last winning season before that: 1962 (5-4). The last Columbia head coach who won more games than he lost while at the school: Charles F. Crowley, a Notre Dame graduate (and hence, an obvious winner) who was 26-16-4 during his five-year lenure in a Lion suit. The years were...
Last week Citicorp's pursuit of consumer cash paid its biggest dividend so far. After a four-month campaign that in directly pitted it against the only larger U.S. financial institution, San Francisco's BankAmerica Corp. (assets: $121.5 bil lion), the Federal Home Loan Bank Board approved Citicorp's bid to buy the troubled Fidelity Savings & Loan Association of San Francisco. If upheld by the Federal Reserve Board, as expected, the takeover would mark the first time feder al regulators have allowed a bank holding company to cross both state and industry lines to buy a thrift...
...pursuing a back-to-basics strategy. Said he at May's annual meeting: "We are emphasizing established business lines of demonstrated profitability." Despite ambitious efforts to find new oil, however, Exxon's results have been mixed. Since 1978 its oil reserves have dwindled 13%, to 7 bil lion bbl. In the meantime, costly drilling in the Baltimore Canyon and in the Destin Dome region of the Gulf of Mexico has turned up a discouraging number of dry holes. Wall Street stock analysts think that other oil companies may have greater growth potential, and the price of Exxon stock...
Hastily created in 1928 from the remnants of the Keith-Orpheum theater chain by RCA Founder David Sarnoff and Joseph P. Kennedy, tiny RKO became the studio mouse that roared like MGM's lion. RKO produced the first Technicolor feature, Becky Sharp, starring Frances Dee, now 74 (and in a bit part, a then unknown 23-year-old actress, Pat Ryan, later Pat Nixon), Citizen Kane and the nine best Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers pictures. Last week the final vestiges of the studio-30 years' worth of scripts, musical scores and papers-were donated to the film...