Word: maker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carew can tell with a single heft if his bat is minutely out of order. Williams once lifted six bats, one by one, then unhesitatingly picked out the weapon that was a half-ounce heavier than the others. Carew sent a recent shipment of bats back to Hillerich & Bradsby, maker of the famed Louisville Slugger. His exasperated explanation: "Every one was the wrong weight, and the handles were all too big." Interpretation: the wood was not shaved within the proper tiny fraction of an inch of perfection. Like all the other great hitters, Carew scrupulously cares for his bats...
...weapon, traffic deaths should increase after widely reported suicides. He analyzed California traffic fatalities from 1966 to 1973, comparing figures for ordinary weeks with statistics for weeks following suicides that were highly publicized in the state, including those of Playwright William Inge, Japanese Novelist Yukio Mishima and California Wine Maker A. Korbel. Phillips' finding: on the third day after such a suicide, auto fatalities rose by 30%; they leveled off for the week at 9% above normal. "In general," notes Phillips, "the more publicity given to the suicide story, the more the number of auto fatalities rises...
...fewer than 30 moped manufacturers have jumped into the U.S. market. Only one, Columbia of Westfield, Mass., is American-headquartered; all the rest are based in Europe, where mopeds have been popular for decades. The biggest makers are France's Motobecane, which has 5 million of its Mobylettes on foreign roads (including Bermuda, as legions of U.S. tourists have discovered); Austria's Steyr Daimler Puch; and Holland's Batavus. All have set up U.S. subsidiaries and are racing to open moped dealerships. Honda, the big Japanese maker of motorcycles and cars, as yet has no bona fide...
...that operates one of the nation's largest movie chains. That kind of talk about the science-fiction movie Star Wars finds avid listeners among investors and stockbrokers disgusted by the aimless zigs and zags of a dispirited market. The price of shares in 20th Century-Fox, the maker of Star Wars, has more than doubled since the film opened in 32 theaters four weeks ago, leading a boom in movie and entertainment stocks generally. MGM has roared from $16 to $24.25 this year, Columbia Pictures shares have doubled to $15.75, and even Boston-based General Cinema Corp...
...Roof deals with the murder of a Swedish police inspector, Stig Nyman, who meets his Maker in a Stockholm hospital room at the hands of a bayonet-wielding figure. The murder is horribly bloody and practically guaranteed to turn the stomachs of the squeamish. In fact, only Sam Peckinpah could really enjoy it. But like the rest of the film it is quite realistic, and therefore effective...