Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...losing games it is just not supposed to lose. Two years ago, the Crimson severed Dartmouth's 15-game winning streak only to be beaten the following week by Penn, the perennial peasantry of the Ivy League. Last year, Harvard whipped a strong Massachusetts team 20-14 and then ran into little Bucknell and a 24-31 disaster. On a number of other occasions, the Crimson has beaten the tough teams on its schedule and then crumpled the next week before inferior opponents...
...used to, though he still smokes 15 Coronas a day. In 1963 he became chairman of the board after he resigned as editor, and was replaced by Richard B. Fowler, 63, a quiet, diffident man who is less interested in playing politics than in administering a newspaper. "Nelson ran the Star as his personal paper," mused Roberts last week, characterizing his own regime as well. "Today it is run as the readers' paper...
Even at the newspapers that were always Field's primary concern, the chain of command effectively bypassed him as publisher. Editors Larry Fanning at the Daily News and Emmett Dedmon at the Sun-Times ran their papers largely on their own, with no interference from the trustees. As Field would have wanted, they considered themselves competitors even though they took the same editorial line on major issues. "The newspapers," said Fanning, "will continue to be operated according to our understanding of Marshall Field's likes, and our understanding of the kind of newspapers he wanted...
...last May, stocks bobbed back and forth. They started the week on the upbeat, then turned lower, then higher, then lower again and finally came to rest at 930 - up only half a point for the week. At the height of trading, the exchange's high-speed ticker ran twelve minutes behind, but had it not been for this new, computerized equipment, the tape would have lagged by 90 minutes, and many an investor would have become frightened...
Technology of Haste. Boorstin approaches the problem region by region. In New England, he finds, adaptation required a monumental psychological change. Poor in natural resources, the New Englander exploited his native resourcefulness. "New England," ran the popular taunt, "produces nothing but granite and ice." So energetic New Englanders, making an economic virtue out of a geographical necessity, harvested their rocky hills and frozen ponds, virtually created the markets for their products, shipped granite to Savannah and New Orleans, ice to Persia, India and Australia. The same restless and ingenious spirit drove New England manufacturers who developed specialized machines to replace...