Word: plan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trade in the Giants' defensive backfield (1950-55) under Coach Steve Owen. Using the pro's basic 4-3-4 "umbrella" formation, Landry has plotted a score of basic defense plays, each capable of several variations tailored to the particular enemy's offense. The defense plan is called in a defensive huddle before each play, can be changed on a shouted code word if the offense lines up in an unexpected pattern...
Behind Landry's complex system of blitzing linebackers and slanting linemen is a single master principle: funnel the play to the inside so that Sam Huff can make the tackle. Says the Los Angeles Rams' Line Coach Don Paul: "We hold a special meeting to plan how we're going to get Sam Huff." Huff has perfected the linebacker's risky technique of guessing where the play is going and meeting the runner head-on in the hole. From hours of study, he knows what plays may be run from any formation. To discover which...
...earlier dinner show is considered on the square side) she asked 72 guests, including Gloria Vanderbilt, Ingemar Johansson, aging Aly Khan and his durable friend, French Model Bettina, Arthur Loew Jr. (of the movie Loews) and his bride, who is Tyrone Power's widow. A strict seating plan enforced by flacks and headwaiters deployed the guests at six reserved tables, each equipped with three massive tins of caviar and assorted beverages. Dressed remarkably simply (she wore no jewelry other than diamonds), and more beautiful than ever, Hostess Elizabeth Taylor had just made her hush-provoking entrance when a crisis...
Tomb for Hiroshima. Tange decided in his teens to become an architect after he had seen pictures of Le Corbusier's rejected plan for the League of Nations. He attended Tokyo's Imperial University, later worked with Architect Kunio Maekawa, a former Le Corbusier pupil. Tange's big chance came after the war, when in 1949 he won the national competition to build the Hiroshima Peace Center on the site where the first A-bomb was dropped. His solution for the museum, library and auditorium was typically Corbusian: a series of reinforced concrete structures set on stilts...
...profit, which covered its entire new investment. The story is the same for Cleveland's Lincoln Electric Co., which has nailed down 50% of the market for heavy electrical welding machinery; last year it gave its 148 employees $117,000 under a profit-sharing plan (Lincoln's employment waiting list: 2,000 people), has just opened a new $2,700,000 plant in Sydney and is working on still more expansion plans...