Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unions would like to have the foreign-flag ships sail under U.S. wage scales and, ultimately, with U.S. crews. That, cries management, would mean economic and political disaster. To put the crews under U.S. labor controls might incite foreign protests, and would certainly make the ships noncompetitive. If that happens, the companies say, Washington would have to subsidize them by at least $500 million yearly or they would be forced to mothball or sell the ships. The long-term result, the ship owners argue, could only be that more of the world's ships and shipping business would pass...
...Piersall of 1960 and today's tame Indian is crotchety, dry-witted Manager Jimmie Dykes, 64, who came to the Indians last year in a mid-season managerial swap that sent Joe Gordon to Detroit. Says Indian General Manager Gabe Paul: "You can't ever expect Pier-sail to be a Little Lord Fauntleroy. He has his moments. But with Dykes around, he's under control at all times...
...years of African business experience, still makes the long-range financial decisions and has the final word on United Africa's grand strategy. His own explanation of United Africa's success: "When there's a change of wind, it simply means you alter your sails. If you do it right, you may even sail faster...
...much-decorated naval veteran who fought vainly for 17 years to clear his name after he was relieved by Winston Churchill as Britain's top admiral in the Mediterranean for allowing six French ships loyal to the Vichy government to slip through the Straits of Gibraltar and sail to Dakar; of pneumonia; in Beaminster, Dorset, England...
Reform & Rebellion. When word came of revolt in the American Colonies, the idealistic La Fayette got himself appointed a major general in the Revolutionary forces and, without bothering to send word to the pregnant Adrienne, set sail to bring freedom to North America. Five years later, he returned a hero, and Adrienne was so overcome that she fainted at their reunion. Scarcely pausing to bring her round, he eagerly went into politics, called for a constitutional monarchy, and hung the U.S. Bill of Rights on his wall with an empty frame beside it, explaining to visitors: "It is intended...