Word: mattresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...culture unto itself. He feels and radiates the allure of baseball, and embodies all that the game tries to relate to it's close-minded competition-oriented throng. Meanwhile he lives the dream of every kid that ever broke his glove in by sticking it under his mattress, or scraped his knee sliding at a Little League tryout. He's in the majors, and he's grateful. And if he shows his gratitude by not having an agent squabble over contract negotiations, by not being mercenary to television and endorsements, by pitching his heart out whenever he gets the chance...
...Eagles assumed a never-to-be-lost lead with nine minutes left in the half, 23-21, on a 20-foot jumper Ernie Cobb, a junior guard with mattress spring for thighs...
...followed caused them to wonder whether they could find fuel to power new plants, and at what price. Investment always involves some risk, of course, but in the minds of many executives the risks now outweigh the potential rewards. Says Grant Simmons Jr., chairman of Simmons Co., the Georgia mattress maker: "Ten years ago, management would make investment decisions on the basis of intuitive, broad-stroke guesses. Now we want to be damn sure we see the fish in the barrel before we shoot...
After his prowling, he would return to his $238.50-a-month studio apartment, which overlooked the Hudson River from the seventh floor of a trim building occupied mainly by Hispanics and blacks. But Berkowitz's apartment was a mess, furnished with little more than a low mattress. The windows were covered by sheets to keep neighbors from seeing in. Pornographic magazines were strewn near the bed. One large hole had been knocked in a wall, with an arrow pointing to it and a puzzling hand-printed message: "Hi. My name is Mr. Williams, and I live in this hole...
When he is in town, Arthur Ochs ("Punch") Sulzberger, 51, publisher of the Times, chairman and president of its parent company, usually takes the news lying down. On an orthopedic mattress, the hazel-eyed, faintly balding, perpetually smiling publisher literally tears into his custom-delivered Times...