Word: picks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...still be exam period, but somewhere out there some seniors can dream only of June, and freedom. It's time to pick a Class Day speaker again, and the 1979 Class Committee is already looking for the one person who can perfectly capture the class's emotions on that solemn...
...walked into the office of Harold McGraw, 61, chairman of McGraw-Hill. Robinson brought with him Amexco President Roger Morley, who is also a McGraw-Hill director; Morley earlier had dropped some hints of Amexco's interest, but they were so subtle that McGraw may have failed to pick them up. The two American Express chiefs gave McGraw a letter proposing that Amexco buy all of McGraw-Hill's stock for $830 million in cash, or cash and Amexco stock if McGraw-Hill stockholders preferred, and run McGraw-Hill as a subsidiary without changing the management. Morley accompanied...
...mention black-eyed peas. Carol was down in Tennessee taping a CBS Valentine's Day special, Dolly and Carol in Nashville, with sweet-singing, statuesque Dolly Parton. As Grand Ole Opry fiddlers sawed away, the odd couple careened bravely through the lyrics of No One Can Pick Like a Nashville Picker Picks and No One Can Kick Like a Nashville Kicker Kicks. "I'm going crackers with that picks and kicks thing," grumbled Burnett. Nevertheless, she thinks she and the queen of country music make a perfect pair. Deadpans Burnett: "I trim my eyelashes and bind myself every...
...ninth and finest season in the N.F.L. He led the Steelers to their third Super Bowl with a brilliant year: completing 207 of 368 passes (56.3%) for 2,995 yds. and 28 touchdowns, and winning the A.P.'s N.F.L. Player of the Year Award. The No. 1 draft pick of 1970 has become the No. 1 quarterback of 1978, and nobody laughs about his chewing tobacco any more...
...pages. Brought by the Government in 1969, the suit has dragged on so long that the opposing lawyers have argued over what to do should the judge, 68-year-old David Edelstein, die before it is over. The Government wants an agreement that would allow a new judge to pick up the trial where the old judge left off. But IBM has so far refused, which might mean starting virtually all over again...