Word: nails
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that whatever play they call, Huff is likely to be in front of it. Sam Huff is strong enough to flatten a plunging fullback such as the Chicago Bears' Rick Casares (6 ft. 2½ in., 225 Ibs.), swift enough to recover from a block in time to nail a halfback sprinting around end, smart enough to diagnose pass patterns and throw an offensive end off stride with an artful shoulder. But Huff is at his rugged best when he knifes through the line and "red-dogs" a quarterback as he fades to pass...
...perfectionist," says a former employee. "He applies this rule to people as well as products and advertising." Revson pays attention to the smallest details, often spends weeks working out the right name or the exact shade for a new lipstick or nail enamel, personally selects models and approves their clothing. He even had his employees' telephones tapped to make sure they were doing their jobs right...
...Revson moved to New Hampshire with his family, and, after graduating from high school, went to Manhattan's Seventh Avenue to work in a relative's textile business. He picked up savvy about fashions, learned many a lesson in feminine psychology. Revson noticed that women's nail polish was poor, unimaginative, and marketed as if it were kitchen paint. He decided to cash in on this failing by setting up his own business when he was only 25, got Chemist Friend Charles Lachman (represented by the L in Revlon) to turn out new attractive enamels...
Housecleaning? One way to nail the schools is to insist on residence requirements; the proprietors would run if any student showed up to meet his teachers. New York and Arkansas, which require one year of residence for a correspondence-school degree, are little plagued by the problem. In contrast, easygoing Colorado, Delaware and Indiana are hangouts for fake schools with a thriving trade in India, Pakistan, Burma and Egypt...
...position in daily traffic jams, unheard of a few years ago. But outside Addis Ababa, 90% of Ethiopia's people are illiterate farmers, some of whom still live in a barter economy where 2 Ibs. of hand-picked wild coffee will fetch one fingernail's worth of nail polish. As a result of these feudal economics, 180 million acres of the world's richest farm land lie fallow in Ethiopia, despite periodic famines and a growing trade deficit. Foreign aid at best merely sugarcoats Ethiopia's deep-seated economic woes...