Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Little kids ran through the building, picking fights with each other and trying to emulate their wrestling heroes. Knocking into people, they scuffled and shoved, but they didn't know how to throw their punches. I couldn't stop to see if any got hurt--I was caught in the middle of a crowd of several thousand people who were all heading for the same MBTA car bound for Park Street...
...best melee of all was in lovely Kingsport, jewel of northeast Tennessee. I was in the heel's dressing room (heels always seem the funniest storytellers) when someone stuck his head in the door and said, "Riot!" . . . when we ran to the curtains we saw Pop fighting his way to the far doors with the aid of a couple of cops. The crowd was in a nasty mood - which was typical. By the time we got there Pop had realized he was going in the wrong direction and had started back through the howling mob to the stage...
Many deals start on the golf course. One day at a Dallas country club, Jim Ling ran across an acquaintance who was a steel-company director. The man remarked that the steel company was in trouble and should be available for a takeover. As it turned out, the company threatened to resist, and Ling backed off. But his appetite had been whetted. He started looking for other steel companies. By reading annual reports, he became interested in Jones & Laughlin. First there was a correct but tense meeting at the elegant Rolling Rock Country Club outside Pittsburgh, then a secret hotel...
...they are not always effective; they can stumble as easily as they succeed. Harry Figge's "Automatic" Sprinkler Corp. went into a nosedive last year when strikes and production snags crippled two divisions, while a third ran into cost-control woes. Ogden Corp. suffered after its shipbuilding subsidiary hit rough weather. Tex Thornton's Litton ran into multiple trouble: losses in shipbuilding, engineering snags on a new typewriter, slumping sales of office furniture. Much to the dismay of investors, the company blamed its plight on management deficiencies...
...sophomore linebacker, completely dominated his bigger opponent, throwing lightning left jabs to the head and body and occasional roundhouse rights. But Mahoney stayed game for the entire bout, even after he was cut above the right eye in the second round. He kept right on stalking Farneti but ran into more punches than he landed...