Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...angry animal chose that instant to leap 4 ft. straight up, 10 ft. forward, and dig its front hooves into the dirt. Wegner flew headfirst over the horns ("like he was shot from a cannon," said one awed spectator), and as he lay gasping in the dirt, the bull ran over his body. Miraculously, he escaped with nothing worse than bruises. Four days later he was back in action, and unlucky enough to draw another never-ridden bull-this time a mammoth Black Angus-Brahma cross. Wegner stuck it out the full 8 sec., but his wild, scrambling ride earned...
...make its debut. The Kefauver investigation of overpricing in the drug industry had only recently opened in Washington. And although Geffen recognized his total dependence on drug advertisers, he also recognized the need for editorial independence. In issue after issue, the testimony brought out by the Kefauver committee ran in the fledgling MWN side by side with pharmaceutical...
While mills ran near to capacity last week, steel was being poured at its highest level in five years: 2,700,000 tons. Yet the record was clouded by the continued stockpiling of steel by customers who fear a strike in May, when the industry's contract with the United Steelworkers expires...
Detroit's hottest automaker, as a result, is Ford Division General Manager Lee Iacocca, 40 (TIME cover, April 17), who not only fathered the Mustang but ran his division so well that Ford in 1964 ate heavily into Chevrolet's predominant share of the middle-priced auto market...
Died. Virgil Blossom, 58, school superintendent of Little Rock, Ark., during the 1957 integration crisis, who won the city's 1955 Man of the Year award for his "Blossom Plan" for peaceful integration (a little at a time over a seven-year period), but ran afoul of Governor Orval Faubus when he tried to implement it, was later forced from his job and his state when he became a target for both sides in the struggle: of a heart attack; in San Antonio, where he had been school superintendent since...