Word: ralston
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Masters. Two months ago in London, he bested Newcombe to win the Queen's Club Open, then came within a few shots of beating him again two weeks later in a furious five-set finals match at Wimbledon. At the U.S. Open, while Players Clark Graebner and Dennis Ralston were calling the officials "idiotic" and "ridiculous" for banning racket throwing and abusive language on the court, Smith went serenely on his wav, demolishing everyone he met. "Stan," says his doubles partner, Erik Van Dillen, "talks with his racket...
...Gilbert Ralston, who wrote the screenplay, sees Willard as "a rat morality play. It's based on the concept that man carries within him the seeds of his own destruction. The evil he does will turn back on him." That it certainly does. Willard (Bruce Davison) is an underachiever in his 20s who likes rats but is also something of a rat fink. He stands by spinelessly when his mean-minded boss (Ernest Borgnine) kills Socrates, one of his pets. Socrates' best friend, a rat named Ben, witnesses the act. It is thus easy, when Willard gets fired...
...Ralston Purina...
...Teams of Allende officials circulated through the business community, spreading reassurances that no precipitous moves were planned. In November, however, Allende announced the "temporary" takeover of a hardware manufacturer that is partly owned by Northern Indiana Brass, as well as a feed company that is a subsidiary of Ralston Purina. The seizures were accomplished under a 1945 labor law that allows government intervention to prevent a plant from closing. The hardware company had shut its doors when credit tightened and home construction slowed after Allende's election. The feed company had laid off ten workers at its broiler farm...
When the Danforth Foundation (set up by the Ralston-Purina Company) offered to help fund the Whitehead Fellowships, the Ed School was confident of getting additional money from the Federal government, Sizer said...