Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Much of ITT's growth has come from Geneen's success in playing the merger game. In all, the skipper of the Genie IV has reeled in 44 companies, ranging across fields as diverse as auto rentals, mutual-fund management and airport parking. The biggest catch of all-ITT's proposed merger with American Broadcasting Cos.-has so far eluded...
...race proves only that in those tricky airs and waters, we have a built-in advantage. These days there is precious little difference technologically between challenged and challengers, and until the race takes place in neutral waters, it will remain simply a trial of skill between a skipper who has spent his life on these waters and one who hasn...
Truculent Skipper. The senseless mockery of diplomatic relations brought British Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Foreign Secretary George Brown hurrying back to London from vacations. They immediately ordered all Chinese diplomats, journalists and trade representatives in London restricted to a small area in the city's center. The 2,500 Chinese nationals now in Britain were refused exit from the country without specific permission. The Chinese diplomatic radio transmitter was ordered closed down, pending the re-establishment of communications with the British in Peking-and assurance of their safety...
...spot, a diplomatic observer who can help keep track of the anarchy raging inside the Communist giant. Thus the Russians have put up with having the wives and children of their Peking diplomats forced to crawl under portraits of Mao. Italy last week was enduring the truculence of the skipper of a Chinese freighter in Genoa bent on converting the Genovese to Mao. Last week alone, the Chinese accused nations as diverse as Burma, Kenya and Ceylon of participating in an unholy Soviet-American alliance against Peking...
Toward the end of World War II, Eugen Kielbasa, a German U-boat commander, torpedoes an Allied freighter in the South Atlantic. The skipper then orders his young gunnery officer, Emil Kummerol, to destroy all "floating wreckage"-including a dozen helpless survivors. Otherwise, he explains to his shocked crew, Allied planes and subchasers would detect and destroy the U-boat. One of the helpless seamen survives machine-gunning, grenade tossing, ramming, and torturous exposure to the sea. Because of his testimony, Kielbasa and Kummerol are eventually brought before an international war-crimes tribunal. The captain's defense is that...