Word: slices
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Adapted by Isobel Lennart from a 1952 novel by Jon Cleary, the picture serves a slice of life in the "outback"-the vast sheep steppes of the Australian hinterland. The hero (Robert Mitchum) is a sundowner, the Aussie equivalent of a rolling stone, who drifts from bush town to bush town, job to job, while his wife (Deborah Kerr) urges him to save up, buy a farm and settle down. To keep peace, he takes a job as a "rouseabout" in a shearing shed. But as soon as he has some savings, he nicks off and goes broke...
...make bigger profits than in the U.S., thanks to lower costs and rapidly growing markets. H. J. Heinz makes half its sales in foreign markets, and this half produces two-thirds of all Heinz profits. Chesebrough-Pond's gets 57% of its profits from the 40% foreign slice of its sales, Coca-Cola 40% from 35%, Colgate-Palmolive 64% from 51% and International Telephone & Telegraph 75% from 60%. In most of the industrialized free-world countries, there are few or no restrictions on returning profits to the firm's home country...
...matching yens for fantan, cricket fights (in which trained insects do battle unto death) and cusek-a type of roulette played with dice; of a heart attack; in Hong Kong. A strapping (6 ft., 200 Ibs.) brigand, Fu was ransomed in 1946 for $150,000 when captors sent a slice of his right ear to relatives, but seven years later stalled on paying ransom for his kidnaped son until the gang proved their seriousness by slicing...
Still, it seemed that MacIntyre would get his chance for a slice of football immorality in 1959. MacIntyre split the Crimson's punting duties with Boulris that fall, and with two games to play, his 40.4-yard average on 17 attempts gave him a clear shot at the Harvard season record...
...explanation had more to do with business than show. Toronto's O'Keefe Brewing Co.. having just completed a $12 million civic center for the performing arts, was willing to offer a sizable (exact amount undisclosed) slice of Cana dian bacon to get the right show for the center's dedication. Camelot, the 1960 reunion of My Fair Lady's family (Librettist Alan Jay Lerner, Composer Frederick Loewe, Director Moss Hart, Star Julie Andrews), was the obvious choice...