Word: morgan
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...DiMaggio had the most famous baseball wife ever--Marilyn Monroe. But some current brides come close. Five points each if you can identify the husbands of golfer Nancy Lopez and illicit film star Chesty Morgan...
...last year of the Eisenhower Administration, overhauled Pentagon management procedures, helping prepare the way for modern weapons and tactics, and authorized the ill-fated U-2 spy-plane flight of Francis Gary Powers; after a long illness; in Philadelphia. A banker by profession, Gates was president of the Morgan Guaranty Trust Co. from 1962 to 1965 and chief of the U.S. mission in Peking...
...letting loose of it even for a day seems important now to Pete Rose, almost 42, bothered by the Phillies' predisposition to rest him occasionally this season. But his dismay is blunted by his happiness at being back in the company of old Cincinnati comrades Joe Morgan, 39, and Tony Perez, 40. Besides, Rose has a plan. "Whenever I'm out of the lineup, I'll drive [Manager] Pat Corrales so nuts he'll have to get me out of the dugout. My edge has always been to play every day, to try to lead...
...bright little man who was a whirlwind for the Reds in the '70s, Morgan believes modestly that he will be Rose's edge this year. "Pete will want to prove to Joe Morgan he can still play, just as I want to show Pete Rose I can still play." Their clubhouse method of staying loose is to ridicule each other and everyone else fondly, but often mercilessly. How this will play in Philadelphia, where feelings are fragile, should be interesting. "When you kid around," says Perez, who supplies the perspective, as usual, "you become a friend, not just...
Upturns in the market have presaged recoveries during all eight postwar recessions (indicated above in red). "On the average, the market is five months ahead of an upturn in the economy," says Barton Biggs, chief portfolio strategist at Morgan Stanley & Co., '"and it did it again." Moreover, the market was not fooled last spring, as many economists were, when the economy made a brief uptick, only to sink back into the doldrums...