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During the shameful era of segregated baseball, the biggest loser was the game itself, which was deprived of these great players. That much was clear as they talked into the night, savoring past glories. "We had wonderful times out there, we most certainly did," said Buck O'Neil, first baseman for the Kansas City Monarchs. "Don't feel sorry for nobody you see here. They could play the game as well as anyone who ever played. I don't care how far they go today. However high George Brett goes, or however far Reggie Jackson hits...
...firms in the forefront of a new industry. The odds may be long, but the return can be high. Says Donald Ackerman, 47, senior partner of New York's J.H. Whitney.& Co.: "One large winner takes care of a lot of mediocre situations and even an occasional loser. This is not a game for little investors...
...Tandem Computers, with Treybig as president and Tom Perkins as chairman of the board, rolled up sales of $109 million. The $1.5 million investment by Kleiner, Perkins is now worth $220 million. The company also struck gold last year when Genentech "One large winner takes care of an occasional loser...
...billion purchase of St. Joe Minerals. Their fee for that deal: $3.5 million. If Du Pont wins Conoco's hand, First Boston could pocket as much as $15 million. But even if some other firm walks off the winner, First Boston will still claim a $750,000 loser...
Some veterans ruefully suspect that they are being merely patronized as this season's cause ? the moral equivalent of snail darters or baby seals. But the vets' anger, emerging now less encumbered by the old shame of the loser, less haunted by the guilt of the war's uniquely vivid violence, has a new force. It contains a certain aggressive pride, expressed almost for the first time. The Viet Nam veterans may have been knocked off the tracks of their careers by two or three years; they may not have caught up yet with their peers, but they...