Word: sparely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Havana, Britain's Leyland Motor Co. Ltd. signed up to sell 400 heavy 45-passenger buses for $10 million plus $1,100,000 worth of spare parts. The company gave Castro five years to pay, threw in an option for another 1,000 buses and agreed to train whatever mechanics were needed. To get around the shipping blacklist, Leyland first asked the British government for the loan of an aircraft carrier; when that request was ignored, the company announced that East German freighters would handle the order...
Adopted at 30. The man responsible for the company's success is Billy Prince, a brash, bouncy executive who reads poetry in his spare time, once wanted to be a schoolteacher. Prince had an unusual debut into meat packing. Born William Wood, he was adopted at 30 by Cousin Frederick H. Prince, an 81-year-old Boston banker who had no sons he thought able to take over his $150 million holdings. At Prince's request, Billy Wood took his cousin's name and a trustee's job, supervised a spread of trusts that eventually included...
Elaboration of ancient fables has always been a fascinating literary exercise-particularly because a fable, if it is classic, sends the imagination soaring far beyond its own spare telling. Thomas Mann got four dense volumes out of exploring the emotional and theocratic implications of a few chapters in the Bible describing Joseph's sojourn in Egypt. With less weight but more easy charm, British Author David Garnett has done the same thing with the story of Noah...
...Neill, Sir Pierson Dixon, Sir Frank Roberts, among others-whose rare talents have been superbly supported by the smooth, articulate technicians of Whitehall. The government has not yet said when it will tear down the Foreign Office. Indeed, if it should change its mind and spare the old building, it could well argue that some of the world's wiliest diplomats have come from palazzos-if not from slums...
...halftime, the Giants had a 16-3 lead, but Tittle, being a nut on insurance (he even sells it in his spare time), buttonholed Gifford in the locker room. "What do you think you can do with that guy?" he asked, meaning Glenn Glass, the Steeler defensive halfback. "He's playing me to go outside," answered Gifford. Aha, thought Tittle-and stored the information away for emergency use. The emergency came early in the third quarter: the Steelers had closed the gap to 16-10, and the Giants faced a third down and eight on their own 23-"third...