Word: sec
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Andre Previn and J. J. Johnson: Kurt Weill (Columbia). Previn's triple sec piano and Johnson's sudsy trombone breathe new life into Weill's old tunes...
...died after being knocked out in his ninth pro fight. Stan's way led to top marks at mostly Negro David Starr Jordan High School, thence to a full athletic scholarship at Whittier College, where his size (6 ft. 4 in.. 204 Ib.) and blinding speed (9.8 sec. for the 100-yd. dash) made him an All-America end in small-college football. He also kept A-minus grades in his political science major, was student-body president. Turning down pro football offers, Stan will pursue Oxford's famed "PPE" (philosophy, politics, economics), aims to become...
...believe that you can get almost any thing you want," says Minnesota Tackle Bobby Bell, 22, "if you want it bad enough." Bell weighs 214 Ibs., stands 6 ft. 4 in., and is quick enough to run 100 yds. in 10.4 sec.; he made everyone's All-America, and the N.F.L.'s Minnesota Vi kings wanted him enough to offer $18,000 a season for three years. But the A.F.L.'s W'estern Champion Dallas Texans wanted him so badly that they gave Bell every thing he demanded: a six-year, no-cut contract that calls...
...defense of the title he won from Joe Brown last April, by trouncing Japan's Teruo Kosaka before 8,000 spectators in a Tokyo sumo wrestling hall. The 135-lb. Ortiz toyed with the windmilling Japanese challenger for four rounds, put him neatly away after 2 min. 32 sec. of the fifth. The fans applauded politely, rose from their straw mats, put on their shoes and went home...
...they were the monopolistic Goliaths of the past. To get around this, the I.C. last week applied to the Securities and Exchange Commission for permission to switch to the status of a holding company, which would control the railroad but be free to diversify outside of transportation. If SEC and stockholders approve as expected,* the I.C. will exchange its 3,135,415 shares with its stockholders on a one-for-one basis, convert itself into Illinois Central Industries Inc., and start diversifying next summer...