Word: seven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fans Coaches to advise And, best of all, there was the fun of going to the Bel-Air Hotel bar and staying up late at night talking football with friends. The only trouble was that too often Danny's team lost more games than it won, once for seven seasons in a row. That got to be boring and, in an effort to liven things up, Danny kept switching coaches. When he fired No. 6 just two days before Christmas of 1965, some people said that he had become too difficult to work with. Danny could not understand that...
...Seven weeks into their first season, the Blues were last in their division and badly in need of some offensive punch. Coach Scotty Bowman made some quick trades and acquired Gordon ("Red") Berenson, a bench warmer for the New York Rangers. Berenson, 29, the son of a Regina, Sask., fireman, had all the makings of a top scorer. He learned his swift and violent trade as a boy, skating on the frozen ponds of his home town, but like many young pros, he had found it hard to make a dent in the talent-heavy NHL. As a teenager...
...District Court at Los Angeles, the Justice Department contended that the nation's auto companies have in deed cooperated - but to impede, rather than promote, pollution control. Named in the suit as defendants were General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, American Motors and the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Seven smaller manufacturers were listed as co-conspirators but not as defendants...
...decentralized management in the belief that "it doesn't do any good to sit on the heads of your executives." Fiat's managers bring him only major decisions, but on those, Agnelli is the ultimate authority. Under him, the company has greatly broadened its product line, introducing seven new models in the past two years, a feat even by U.S. standards. He is also increasing Fiat's international reach. Not only are more Fiats going to more markets, but the company has a construction subsidiary, Impresit, active in the Middle East, and recently joined with several partners...
Even the modest projects of Japan's Akira Kurosawa are conceived and executed on a grand scale. Whether his subject is history (Seven Samurai), social commentary (The Bad Sleep Well), classic drama (The Lower Depths) or thriller (High and Low), Kurosawa invests each film with the breadth of an epic vision. Taken together, his films are like a single, vivid morality play, often heroic and sometimes cynical, celebrating the triumph of man over circumstance...