Word: raider
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Against Cornell, the Crimson scored twice in the second period, both times with Big Red players off the ice on penalties, to break a 1-1 deadlock. Next afternoon at Colgate, the varsity coasted to a 4-0 lead before a Raider wing tallied his team's lone goal after taking a pass from his center on an offensive zone face...
...fired his subjects with a fanatic brand of Mohammedanism, and his dedicated Murids, or holy warriors, kept the armies of Czar Nicholas at bay for the next 25 years. As the years passed and the Czar's frustration continued, Shamyl became a European hero. Russophobic Britons forgave the raider his five wives-one of them a Christian captive, well content with her lot-and honored him by dancing the Shamyl Schottische...
What frustrates him for months is that the raider is not a U-boat at all, but a heavily armed surface vessel well disguised as a merchantman. The raider, the Atlantis, flies whatever flag is convenient, and carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers-wigs, parasols and all. When a target is sighted, the Atlantis steams close by, runs up the swastika and lowers the false packing cases which hide its guns. The raider's captain, played by Van Heflin, is a gentleman who, in his student days, rowed against Cambridge...
Gallantry is spread rather thickly by all hands-Laughton gives grudging tribute to his unseen opponent. Heflin behaves nobly to his captives-and eventually it becomes a little tiresome, even though the viewer knows that it is based on fact. (The German raider Atlantis bedeviled Allied shipping for most of 1940-41, and its captain-now NATO Admiral Bernhard Rogge-was so humane to his prisoners that some of them still correspond with him.) Eventually, the Atlantis is caught and sent to the bottom. The film, for all of Laughton's inspired snorting and Heflin's underplayed "Fire...
...widely scattered that shareholders have little say in how their money is used. Large stockholders, who might wield power, often dodge the issue. If dissatisfied, they simply sell out and put their money elsewhere. The one man who is still a threat to unbridled corporate power is the raider. Though he is now considered "almost illegal," says Dean Rostow, he performs a useful service by getting rid of deadhead management, or even by carrying on a fight that frightens management into reform. One suggestion for restoring the stockholders' voice: trustees to vote their shares, watch out for their interests...