Word: plum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came. First, the bank's 25-man board, as expected, named Moore chairman. Then Thomas R. Wilcox, 50, the peppery executive vice president in charge of the bank's domestic branches and a leading candidate for Moore's job, was made a vice chairman. But the plum went to Walter B. Wriston, 47, executive V.P. for overseas operations. Since Moore himself was only three years from retirement, said the bank, new President Wriston would lose no time getting into "the maximum possible responsibilities...
...there is no plum in sight to replace North American's rich NASA contract for Apollo Moon Project hardware, worth $676 million in fiscal 1966 alone. To cushion a potential slide in Government business, which could push total sales down as much as 15% this year, Atwood began making plans to expand "into the commercial and industrial sector." At one point, he made a strong but unsuccessful bid for Douglas Aircraft...
...call it the United States. And we're bound together by our Constitution and our language. Yet, in many ways, we're a group of separate kingdoms. Our land grows palm trees and pine, redwoods and beach plum, vanishing Key deer and whooping cranes. Our people say 'you all' and 'youse'; catch shrimp and sell stocks; live in lean-tos, skyscrapers and stucco bungalows. There's never been such a fiercely diverse land...
Newest in the successful line-up are Mr. Laffs, which goes in for major-league baseball players, and Maxwell's Plum, decorated in "spontaneous American" by Owner Warner LeRoy, 31, son of the Hollywood producer, who sees his pub as "a revolution between the old-style pickup bar and a new café. We act as catalysts to the very gregarious, but on a high level." So high, LeRoy claims, that "Timothy Leary used to come in every evening, and one night we refused Bobby Kennedy because there was no room...
...bone, with just strings of muscle holding him together." Once, after being tackled, Y. A. Tittle "got off the ground and reeled back to the huddle and finally said, 'Christ, I don't . . , I can't think of any plays.' " Or the reticent Milt Plum, savoring a game-winning touchdown pass: "You pull off something like that, and there doesn't need to be anything else, ever." The armchair quarterback will readily agree -and be intensely jealous of Plimpton every page...