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...when he took it over, to earnings of $7,278,000 tor the first nine months of 1963. While he introduced such imaginative sales devices as the champagne flight and the napkin with a button hole, Drinkwater is fundamentally an efficiency expert. "We're great disciples of Mr. Parkinson," pipes Drinkwater, boasting that there are only three levels of supervision from his own job down to the mechanic servicing a plane outside his window. Though Western's routes span from Calgary to Mexico City, the entire executive crew, only 28 people, is under one roof...
RushingAtt. Yds. Avg. Spangenberg 51 186 3.6 Parkinson 32 138 4.3 McLean 19 105 5.5 Lawson 22 82 3.7 Vancura 8 36 4.5 Kelly 30 33 0.9 Passing Att. Comp. Yds. TD Kelly 47 32 380 5 Gottschall 8 2 21 0 Horton 1 0 0 0 Receiving Ct. Yds. TD Spangenberg 11 94 1 McLean 7 53 1 Creelman 5 142 2 Greer 5 48 0 Punting Punts Yds. Avg. Spangenberg 13 448 34.5 Friel 4 162 40.5 Wilson...
...offense, Dartmouth is set. Besides Spangenberg and Kelley, they can use big fullback Tom Parkinson, who has a rushing average of better than four yards per carry. Jack McLean, a 160-pound scatback, runs well and is a first-class pass receiver. The line is big and fast, and the ends, Charles Greer and captain Scott Greelman, are the equals of any in the Ivy League. Bob Komives, McKinnon's replacement at center, is the lightest man in the line at 190. Curran and Keible are 220-pounders, as are the more inexperienced tackles, Jan Dephouse and Dale Runge...
...Parkinson's Law. Questioning the council's role in the world has not been limited to Orthodoxy. In an article in the current Ecumenical Review, Karl Barth, of Basel, warned that the spirit of renewal seemed to be blowing stronger in Rome than in Geneva these days. Many delegates in Rochester were aware of the need to criticize the gradual "institutionalizing" of the council. In a debate on the latest annual in crease in the council's budget, the Anglican Bishop of Winchester complained that professional ecumenicism seemed to many to be proving Parkinson...
...time, she explored the chill patterned beauty of industrial processes for FORTUNE magazine, contributed to LIFE memorable picture essays on guerrilla warfare in Korea and the tragedy and triumph of India's bloody partition. In the '50s she faced a more personal ordeal when she found that Parkinson's disease was relentlessly robbing her of muscular control. She slowed the progress of her malady with hours of exercises each day for years; the disease has at last been brought under control by brain surgery...