Word: lunde
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Once a hard-charging guard for the College of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minn., Robert D. Lund voices a business philosophy that is pure Vince Lombardi. "The way to win," he says, "is to get out in front and improve your position. When you're green you're growing, but when you're ripe you're next to rotten." His hard sell seemed appropriate enough at General Motors' Chevrolet division, where as general sales manager he set a record of 3 million vehicles sold in 1971, but somewhat out of place at the Cadillac...
...Lund, Sweden...
...slippery, drivers cool and competent, and races are really contests for the affections of a certain woman who sits watching tensely in the stands (in this case, Valerie Perrine). The hero (played by Jeff Bridges, with advice from Johnson himself) starts out running moonshine for his pappy (Art Lund) and playing chicken with the cops. Pappy gets busted, and Junior takes to racing−first in demolition derbies, then working and brazening his way up to the big time−to get some money to soften Pappy's prison term...
...educational purpose. I cannot, however, let pass his aspersions on my sentimentality. I am, Sir, a man who weeps at the playing of the Marseillaise each time he sees Casablanca (fourteen times, at most recent count), and I would gladly abandon my writs and demurrers to follow Ilsa Lund to the ends of the earth. I do not know who Mr. Berg may have in mind as a man whose heart is his least vulnerable spot. I suggest he round up the usual suspects. James A. Sharaf...
...Sharaf strikes us as a man who would pass up an introduction to Ilsa Lund in favor of an evening with chancery cases. A man who wouldn't recognize a beautiful friendship if he tripped over one. A man, in short, whose heart is his least vulnerable spot. Peter C. Berg...