Word: merger
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...nascent recording industry with "unbreakable" phonograph disks. The presence of inauthentic Bakelite out there led to an early 20th century version of the "Intel Inside" logo. Items made with the real thing carried a "tag of genuineness" bearing the Bakelite name. Following drawn-out patent wars, Baekeland negotiated a merger with his rivals that put him at the helm of a veritable Bakelite empire...
...Queens. (718-784-2084): Back in the '70s, the city gave this rundown school building to a gang of artists that included Richard Serra and Gordon Matta-Clark. Renovated and reopened a year ago, the space features a combination of wacky, esoteric and often striking contemporary art. A recent merger with MoMA may or may not blunt its edge...
Accomplishment is a wonderful thing; consistency is as well. And the merger of the two, expressed in DiMaggio's 56-game hitting streak in 1941, yields the one unbreachable hitting record in baseball. In the nearly six decades since it was established, no one has come within 11 games of it. Was the streak a fluke? Not if you go back to 1933, when the 18-year-old DiMaggio, playing in the extremely competitive Pacific Coast League, hit safely in 61 straight games. Or look past that unfortunate day in Cleveland when third baseman Ken Keltner smothered two torpedoes...
...fall and smash, so that children might keep them alive ("You'll never forget that"). DiMaggio was both hero and celebrity, the distinction being that one does and the other is. The hero was the player; the celebrity dated show girls and eventually married Marilyn Monroe, effecting the merger of America's two favorite pastimes. The press protected him, and he protected himself by silence. Hank Greenberg observed that if DiMaggio said hello to you, that was a long conversation. And he wasn't especially lovable, either. He was better than that; he was admirable...
Wilson and members of the Radcliffe Board of Trustees have been in closed-door discussions with Harvard about a possible merger between the two schools for more than a year...