Word: losers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...popular Independents, Walter Sullivan and Thomas Danehy, seem assured of re-election. Owens, who is certain to lose his CCA endorsement, and Frank H. Duehay '55 appear in trouble. Donald Fantini, an Independent member of the School Committee and an ardent Frisoli supporter, Leonard Russell, a three-time loser who trailed Duehay by only 36 votes the last time around, and Dom Christofaro of Cambridgeport should prove the strongest challengers...
...been sounding a different note. By the time he arrives this week in San Clemente, Calif., to begin a six-day visit to the U.S., the man who has personally benefited most from a decade of American involvement in Indochina will have completed a remarkable transformation from a sore loser into a happy, confident winner...
...every big winner, though, there is a big loser-and a dozen iffy investments. Narragansett Capital, the nation's largest publicly owned S.B.I.C., has lost $1,081,000 bankrolling Sam Snead All American Golf, Inc. "A venture capitalist looks for a return of ten times his original investment," says Harlan Anderson, head of Anderson Investment Co. in New Canaan, Conn., "but you're lucky if you get that kind of return in one case out of ten, so it evens out." And some venture capitalists go bust along with the businesses they buy into; 400-odd S.B.I.C.s have...
Without some protection, though, reporters worry that their sources of information will dry up when they cannot be guaranteed anonymity, and the real loser will be the public interest. "There are two sources in Boston that are definitely no longer available to us," says Gerard O'Neill, editor of the Boston Globe's Pulitzer-prizewinning investigative team. "They've helped us before, but since the Caldwell decision, in spite of all our blandishments, they won't even talk to us on collateral subjects." Globe Assistant Managing Editor Timothy Leland thinks an upcoming investigative series could land...
...U.S.S.R.'s perennial agricultural crisis has once again taken its toll in fall guys. This time the Kremlin abruptly removed Vladimir Matskevich, 63, as Minister of Agriculture. A two-time loser, Matskevich had been fired from the same job in 1960 for "mismanagement," then shunted off to be chairman of Nikita Khrushchev's much criticized "virgin lands" project before being restored to the agriculture ministry five years later. Earlier this month Izvestia reported that Sergei Shevchenko, the ministry official in charge of farm machinery, had also been discharged for "violating state discipline"-Soviet jargon for quarreling with...