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...rest of the staff is horribly erratic. Bill Monboquette, a 20-game winner last season, has won three games this year. Two other starters, Jack Lamabe and Dave Morehead, are almost as undependable. Only fastballer Earl Wilson, very mediocre last season, has performed consistently well; his record...
...million. "I think," says Lurie, "it's the finest hotel in the world." ?A husky Virginian who knows his way around Washington as well as Wall Street, Carter Burgess, 45, last week moved up from the presidency to the chairmanship of widely diversified American Machine & Foundry Co., succeeding Morehead Patterson, who died fortnight ago. His acquaintance with both places should be useful: AMF faces an antitrust accusation of conspiring to restrain competition in the bowling industry, and a slowdown in its military contracting helped to cut AMF's first half-year sales 11%, to $185 million. Burgess, once...
...nation's two big bowling manufacturers seem to get along about as well as two tomcats in an alley. "Competition is vigorous and unimpeded," says Brunswick Corp. President Benjamin E. Bensinger, 56. Says his archrival, American Machine & Foundry Co. Chairman Morehead Patterson, 64: "Competition has been fierce and sanguinary." Thus it came as a surprise last week when Bobby Kennedy's Justice Department filed an antitrust suit against the two in a Manhattan federal court. The charge: that AMF and Brunswick had conspired with each other, and with the Bowling Proprietors' Association of America, to restrain trade...
...down orders, but only for sound business reasons, and both denied any conspiracy. Since Brunswick sells most of its equipment on credit, aggressive "Ted" Bensinger insists that the company has the right "before accepting any order to make sure a proposed bowling center can be operated profitably." Soft-spoken Morehead Patterson, whose AMF generally leases its pin spotters for a percentage of the income, also concedes that AMF turns away poor business risks. "We want our proprietors to make money," he says. "If they don't, then we don't get paid." Neither man would say how much...
...Justice Department's action was complicated this week by the sudden death from a heart attack of AMF's Morehead Patterson in Washington...