Word: setters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bensinger went to work to develop an automatic pin setter of his own. Brunswick had experimented for years with automatic pin setters, but decided they were too expensive to produce-until A.M.F. proved this judgment wrong. So Bensinger organized a crash program, in 18 months put Brunswick's machine on the market...
...setter caught on, Brunswick's stock began to climb, and Bensinger found it easy to trade the stock for new companies. He took over nine firms, including St. Louis' A. S. Aloe Co., the nation's second largest distributor of laboratory and hospital supplies (first: American Hospital Supply Corp.), MacGregor Sport Products Inc., and Owens Yacht Co., the second biggest U.S. builder of cabin cruisers, behind Chris-Craft. With the new companies, the bowling division's share of the company's total sales has dropped from 75% to about 60% in the past two years...
When Fitzgerald was hurt last fall, Mullin, then a sophomore, took over as the squad's pace-setter and recorded a strong sixth-place finish in the Harvard-Yale. Princeton meet. Holder of the University mile record of 4:10.6, Mullin has good speed and thrives on hilly courses...
More of Everything. Milan last week was the pace setter in the astonishing postwar boom that has enabled the storied country of palaces, cathedrals and antiquities to climb in industrial production to third place in Western Europe. Nearly 500,000 cars throng the streets, which are wide by Italian standards and spotlessly clean by any standards. Traffic moves faster and with better discipline than in anarchic Rome, yet the accident rate is higher. The Milanese have an explanation: local drivers and pedestrians are so engrossed in important affairs that they often forget to look where they are going...
...than last, and the long-abused French franc continues to gain strength in relation to gold and the dollar, the new prosperity fostered by Charles de Gaulle has not trickled down to the lowest-paid classes. Even conservative newspapers concede that the pay of government employees, traditionally a pace setter for clerical workers generally, is disgracefully low. Only 14% earn $200 a month, while more than a fourth receive under...