Word: lloyds
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Champagne corks popped along the Gulf Coast last week as Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger announced the selection of nine cities as home ports for 29 warships. In what Senator Lloyd Bentsen called "great news for Texas," his state won some $109 million of the $264 million in annual Pentagon payroll spending. Principal beneficiary was Corpus Christi, which will get the newly refurbished World War II battleship Wisconsin, as well as a cruiser, a destroyer, a minesweeper and the Lexington, an aircraft carrier used for training purposes. Together, the ships will mean an estimated 6,500 new military and civilian jobs...
Wimbledon's determination not to assign a top women's seed before the world's toniest tennis tournament represented an equal kindness to Martina Navratilova and Chris Evert Lloyd. That meant, for nearly a fortnight, neither was No. 2, and the peace was wonderful. "Once you've been No. 1," as Evert Lloyd says with a cool stare (she could stare for a living), "you can never be satisfied with less...
...Potter, a self- described "middle-aged tennis player of 23." Yet the joint proprietors of women's tennis, sharers of the past 15 grand-slam events going back to 1981, are the oldest members of the top ten. Coming to their fifth final at Wimbledon, Navratilova, 28, and Evert Lloyd, 30, had met 65 times over twelve years and stood one victory apart. The most enduring rivals in sports, they represent a conflict more fascinating than any tennis match...
...America, say historians, was peopled by savages, but savages never reared these structures, savages never carved these stones." So said John Lloyd Stephens in 1839 at the sight of the lost Maya city of Copan rising eerily out of the Honduran jungle. The pioneering American archaeologist was amazed by the art objects that lay around Copan's crumbling pyramids and palaces. "Architecture, sculpture and painting, all the arts which embellish life, had flourished in this overgrown forest; beauty, ambition and glory had lived and passed away," Stephens wrote. "All was mystery, dark impenetrable mystery...
...clout; they could celebrate the temple of American success while keeping an eye on the cracks in its facade. The industry, or at least that part of it that handed out awards, was grateful: eleven of the first 20 Oscars for best direction went to immigrants, from Frank Lloyd (Cavalcade) and Frank Capra (It Happened One Night) to William Wyler (The Best Years of Our Lives) and Elia Kazan (Gentleman's Agreement...