Word: quit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What is the best time to retire? Jim Brown, the great running back of the Cleveland Browns, quit at the height of his powers, in 1966, before he began having to fight his age. By contrast, Willie Mays went on until he was 42 and found himself stumbling around under fly balls for the New York Mets. There is a natural season, a range of ages, for athletes in most sports. Russia's Olga Korbut, a gold medal gymnast in 1972 at the age of 17, appeared sadly middle-aged four years later. Rumania's Nadia Comaneci, whose...
...Crimson's superior sprint duo of Malcolm Cooper and Julian Mack led the charge, sweeping Yale--which was hurt by the fact that captain and top sprinter Harvey Hook had quit the team--in both the 50- and 100-yd. freestyles. The invincible Cooper won both events with times of 21.26 and 47.01, respectively...
...year later, eight of Shockley's ablest collaborators quit, and with backing from Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. founded Fairchild Semiconductor. The new firm prospered and eventually began to spawn its own host of upstart competitors as its technicians, one after another, decided to go into business for themselves...
...joins a mob wrecking a house in Bloomsbury Square. The work invigorates him: "I longed to cross the square and start on Bedford House, then begin elsewhere, until I had demolished every great house in London; after which I'd unleash myself on the provinces and not quit till I had the razing of all such dwellings from Land's End to Carlisle. And maybe Scot land...
...which was built by John R. Beckett, a former investment banker. Krim, now 67, and his longtime colleague Robert Benjamin, 68, U.A.'s finance committee chairman., are among Transamerica's biggest shareholders, with a total of 505,000 shares, worth about $7 million. But when Pleskow suddenly quit, Krim and Benjamin decided to follow. Last week others joined the exodus, among them Senior Vice President for Production Mike Medavoy, 37, who is considered tops at measuring popular tastes and making money-spinning deals...