Word: outfit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prince Rainier, 43, came up a winner. Monaco's Supreme Court decided that the Prince's government was perfectly within its rights when it issued itself 600,000 new shares of stock in the Société des Bains de Mer, thus guaranteeing control of the outfit that runs the famed Monte Carlo Casino and 33% of the principality's real estate. The big loser: Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis, 60, who hitherto controlled the Société with 500,000 shares. Onassis' next move may well be to offer his shares to Rainier...
...self-protective deviousness in his nature. He ran away, he tells his lawyer and the court, because one day the mud-and-blood bath of battle got to be too much for him. He doesn't have the foggiest idea if he ever intended coming back to his outfit. All he knows is that he desperately wanted to go home. It is an affecting, truthful defense, but the law gives Hamp's military judges no option; he dies before a firing squad...
Coach Sieja's outfit, which topped Harvard, 15-12, also beat Cornell earlier in the season, 14-13. But last week the Big Red looked impressive against Columbia, losing 15-12 to the team which clobbered Harvard, 21-6. Cornell's only Ivy win was against Yale, the League doormat for the last few years...
This first novel, which relates eight days in King's life, contains enough action-both lethal and sexual-to flesh out a sociological study of Harlem, and enough profanity to outfit a platoon of Marines. Shane Stevens has invented an idiom for his swaggering teen-agers that gives pungency to King's occasional meditations. On school, for example: "Everyone shouting and screaming and nobody care about what they is going on. But at least it somewhere to stay away from when they make you go." And on the purpose of fighting gangs: "In this bizness you got have...
...grapplers meet Rutgers at New Brunswick, N.J. tonight, and then faces a fairly weak Columbia outfit the following afternoon...