Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HAVE YOUR HOLIDAY WITH ALL RISK ELIMINATED. ENJOY A HOLIDAY YOU WILL REMEMBER FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. For the 651 passengers and 390 crewmen and relatives aboard the liner, it was indeed a Christmas they would never forget. In the dead of night, four days out of Southampton last week, the Lakonia was swept by a raging, uncontrollable fire that left the 20,314-ton vessel an abandoned, gutted ruin. Of the 1,041 persons aboard, 91 were known dead and 64 more were missing in the rolling Atlantic swells...
...alai is no game for amateurs -and the life of a pelotari is short as well as happy. After a few years, shoulders and arms are noticeably deformed by the strain, and biceps bulge almost as large as Sonny Listen's. Few professionals risk playing past 35. When their legs tire and their reflexes slow down, they are likely to catch a pelota where it hurts-like Erdoza, a Basque champion of the World War I era, who was known as "El Fenomeno" until he put a little extra on a forehand one day and wound up whistling through...
...problem is to choose the right one for each patient. He compared the various operations by their results in terms of death rate, recurrence rate and prevalence of the distressing "dumping syndrome." Dr. Bartlett's most definite conclusion was that old-fashioned subtotal gastrectomy carries too great a risk to be considered for most patients, though it may still be the best in special cases...
Last week, mixing solid business with image-making busyness, Man-in-Motion Johnson was in top form. Although the widow of New York's Herbert H. Lehman had begged the President not to run the security risk, he made a 2-hr. 28-min. descent on Manhattan for the funeral of his ex-Senate colleague, as some 2,500 New York City cops and uncounted federal agents maintained the tightest security precautions in memory. Back in Washington, Johnson sent a draft bill to Congress to put John Kennedy's profile on the U.S.'s 50? piece, wrote...
World Network. Rather than run companies by themselves, the Rothschilds often prefer to start or join syndicates, placing their men on boards to exert maximum influence with minimum investment risk. The partners regularly hop across continents to keep an eye on managements (Edmund visits Canada half a dozen times yearly), and a far spreading network of agents, who seldom even admit that they are employed by the Rothschilds, report constantly on fresh opportunities. Rarely does this discreet family exercise its powers to reorganize companies or juggle managements. Says Guy: "The French don't like violent reshufflings, outside of politics...