Word: rundowns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then, Army really swung into action. Bilodeau took a long lead at first, and the cleaver Cadet hurler fired his pickoff peg to first. The Cadets had Bilodeau trapped in a rundown. Happily, they for-got about Gilmor at third, who took off for the plate...
Brisk, stocky G. Bromley Oxnam. the liberal son of a politically conservative mining executive, was one of those men to whom success seems as natural as sleep. He was a tennis champion and a football star at the University of Southern California. Assigned to a rundown parish in the Los Angeles slums, he renamed it the Church of All Nations and rebuilt it into one of the showcases of his faith. He was president of DePauw University in Indiana from 1928 to 1936 and then became, at 44, the youngest bishop of his church at that time. Oxnam took...
...boss of more than 30 companies with large holdings in copra, rubber, tin, banking and real estate. Currently Loke has a particularly exciting flock under observation. As a public service, he volunteered four years ago to become unpaid chairman of Malayan Airways Ltd. To revive the rundown line, Loke ordered a fleet of Fokker F-27s to replace decrepit DC-3s and leased a BOAC Comet. This week, in cooperation with Hong Kong's Cathay Pacific Airways and Thai International, Malayan will begin to offer 58 weekly flights between major Southeast Asian cities. Unlike Loke's other winged...
...near the Belgian border, rugged Philippe Lamour migrated to Paris as a young man, became a successful lawyer and politician. In 1940, along with other Parisians, he fled south ahead of the Nazi panzers. Lamour never went back. He stopped running in the Midi town of Bellegarde, bought a rundown, 115-acre tract known as "The Farm of the Partridge," and settled down. At war's end, he added 50 more acres, traded in his horses for tractors and successfully grew strawberries and cauliflower in an area previously wedded to wine...
...prudent aggression." He is balding Sol Kittay, 52, a British immigrant who rose from a $12-a-week office-boy's job to become a successful salesman casting around for a firm of his own. In 1945, with savings and a borrowed $100,000, he bought a rundown Ohio textile mill, put it back in the black, started expanding. Within six years, he was big enough to buy B.V.D...