Word: pans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...like something good to eat. There is the machaca, an acrobatic inhabitant of still-water pockets that looks like a cross between a herring and a white shad and often leaps itself spectacularly ta death when hooked. And there is the lavender-hued guapote, a tasty pan fish that weighs anywhere from 2 to 12 Ibs., can sever a sturdy" wire leader with one crunch of its needle-sharp teeth...
...During all of last year, 43 companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange split their stock, exchanging each share for two or more new ones whose total value equaled the original. In 1964's first quarter alone, 43 Big Board companies have done the split, including RCA, Pan American, Campbell Soup and A.T. & T.,*whose 2-for-l split next month will be the biggest division of stock in history. Last week Caterpillar Tractor and May Department Stores joined the march by proposing 2-for-l splits. It looks like a big year in Splitsville...
...first Ivy Leaguer to make an Olympic team for many years, was one of seven collegians named to the squad. USLA's Walt Hazzard, Duke's Jeff Mullins, Joe Caldwell of Arizona State, Jim Barnes of Texas Western, Mel Counts of Oregon State and Lucius Jackson of little Pan American College joined five AAU players on the team...
Berlin, along with a swarm of song publishers, claimed infringement of their copyrights. Last week in Manhattan, the U.S. Court of Appeals decided that no actionable harm had been done. Said the opinion written by Judge Irving R. Kaufman: "Through depression and boom, war and peace, Tin Pan Alley has light-heartedly insisted that 'the whole world laughs' with a laugher, and that 'the best things in life are free.' " The suit against Mad is "an apparent departure from these delightful sentiments." Parodists, said Judge Kaufman, must be permitted to borrow from the original, or else...
...tycoon, a Birmingham urban developer who changed his native skyline so drastically that by 1950 residents joked about Birmingham "B.C." (before Cotton), in 1960 merged with London Financier Charles Clore to form the world-girdling, $1 billion City Centre Properties Ltd. (whose assets include 50% of Manhattan's Pan Am building), but soon found Clore a bore and, seriously ill, sold out to the Clore corps last year; of a heart attack; in Nassau...