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...boom barrage with a White Owl wallop that made the cameraman bring out the telescopic lens. K.C.'s Dan Drago had barely got an "Aw Shucks" off his lips when Billy C. put the wood to the leather and left Drago praying for Divine Intervention. But, lo and behold, "Scratch-hit" Montgomery sent Drago looking for a bar of Dia soup and some Head and Shoulders as he showed that big blasts can come from little packages...
...exactly falling down into the Thames but was badly in need of replacement. The granite balustrades, corbels, facings, cutwaters and retaining walls-10,000 tons in all-were shipped block by block across ocean and desert to be reconstructed in Lake Havasu City, an Arizona town developed from scratch by McCulloch Oil. Buying a bridge, then building a canal to divert water from the Colorado River for the bridge to cross, was an act of commercial savvy as well as historical piety...
Canny Corn. Vittert had a compulsion to start from scratch. Shunning both the family bankroll and the business his late father had built, he went straight from college to Indianapolis to raise cash on his own for starting a company. Within days he persuaded a group headed by Insurance Executive John Burkhart, a wealthy DePauw alumnus whom he had never met, to put up $150,000. Burkhart also agreed to serve as board chairman. Vittert set up shop in a windowless cubicle, recruited five staff members and began searching for clients, traveling around the country on cut-rate "youth-fare...
...Arnie is now $28,000 richer. Not that his indifferent performance over the past year has sent him to the bread lines. Although he finished no higher than second place in individual competition during 1970, the president of Arnold Palmer Enterprises managed to scratch out $128,853 in earnings on the tour...
...Valley wineries last year. Though it can take a decade to reap any return from new vines, Widmer's Wine Cellars of New York, now controlled by mustard-making R.T. French Co., is spending $5,000,000 to buy and clear 400 Sonoma County acres and start from scratch...