Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fame as an omeleteer spread that what started as a moonlighting job, after his regular duties as head chef at Manhattan's Goldman, Sachs Wall Street brokerage house, now sends him jetting on weekends to serve hunt breakfasts in Virginia and midnight suppers in Houston (his charge: $125 per party, plus expenses). Over Christmas and New Year's, in addition to making omelets for five parties in three days in Manhattan, Stanish flew to Nashville, where Mrs. William Tyne says: "There's no question about it; he made the party," and to Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich. There...
Swift, confined in a jail with two evenings of visiting and phoning time per week, was unavailable for comment...
...exact count, Olsen and his chums have nailed enemy quarterbacks behind the line of scrimmage no less than 43 times this year, and they have allowed opposing runners an average of only 3.1 yds. per carry. "Some day," says Merlin, "the four of us want to play the perfect game: allow them no points and minus yards on the ground, and even off their passing yardage by dumping their quarterback...
...concert. Now at 39, he has slowly but persistently emerged as the top American pianist in his age group. His plat form manner is nononsense, but at the peak of his form he stirs poetry, fire and steel into whatever he plays. At a time when most younger American per formers make their loudest noise in the flashier side of the repertory -Prokofiev, Bartok, Liszt and the more extroverted Chopin - Graffman has matured into a musician able to challenge Europe's best in the more substantial classical and early romantic repertory...
Biggest reason for the increased prices was high wage settlements, which added an average 5% to business costs in 1967, while productivity (output per man-hour) gained only 3%. The disparity disturbs businessmen because it portends lower profits, or higher prices, or both. The 5% pattern had been established by the 1966 airline machinists' strike, which buried the Administration's once cherished 3.2% wage-price "guideposts." This fall, 5% became more of a floor than a ceiling. Auto workers won 7% increases from Ford, Chrysler and General Motors; Congress gave 705,000 postal workers a 6% raise (along...