Word: setups
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tantalizing Madonna Lucrezia seems proof against procreation, she is nonetheless a setup for seduction. Espoused by an insufferable clod who wants to get her with child but cannot, she falls prey to a heated young gallant (Philippe Leroy) who merely wants to get her to bed and does. The lover presses his suit with life-or-death urgency, disguising himself as the luckless lout who is supposed to perish by black magic after Lucrezia has downed a potion brewed of mandragola, or mandrake root, and spent the night with him. Once conquered, Lucrezia cherishes...
...preferred more direct action. A onetime seaman, he first roiled the San Francisco local in the mid-1950s by assailing its leaders' cozy relations with contractors, later ired the painters' Indiana-based Big Brotherhood by merging two Bay Area locals that covered the same territory-a convenient setup for employers who had been able to play off one against the other. Last year a Sacramento local passed over its own business representative to elect Outsider Wilson as its negotiator. His influence growing, the San Francisco leader went on to play a militant role in a five-week strike...
Davies' new line at the least should equal the $150 million in revenue that the three separate lines brought home last year. Though that would put it ahead of the longtime No. 1 U.S. shipper, United States Lines (1965 revenues: $114 million), the new setup is aimed less at U.S. competitors than at foreign opposition-particularly Japanese. In the last year and a half, no fewer than 24 Japanese carriers have merged into half a dozen major lines, become the West Coast shippers' chief rivals along the lucrative transpacific and Far East trade routes...
...Crimson struck for three goals in the opening five minutes of play while holding the Indians scoreless. Steve Neubert sent the stickmen out in front by converting on a quick stick setup from Keith Hutchinson...
...beleaguered auto industry last week came under stress from a new quarter-with serious implications for its nationwide dealer-franchise setup. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that General Motors and three Chevrolet dealers' associations, in fighting discount-house car sales in the Los Angeles area in 1960-61, had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in "a classic conspiracy in restraint of trade...