Word: streaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boys are. Some come in for the evening from as far as Osaka on the 125-m.p.h. bullet train; nearly all are between 30 and 40 years old. A middle-aged maitre d' guides each first-timer to a host after discreetly asking her preference. Regular customers streak straight to their favorites. Says one fortyish matron: "My husband leaves me alone with my two children at home for his golfing. I make my husband mind my children once in a while so that I can come here and dance with the boys." Adds another: "My husband...
...weeks last season when he banged up his shoulder diving for a sinking line drive. This year he ripped his hand open on the Crosley Field fence on the second day of the season. Next day, bandage and all, he collected two hits to launch a 22-game hitting streak...
Right on the Record. Winning obviously agrees with Dark Mirage. Since she launched her streak last spring, she has grown 3 in. taller, to 5 ft. 1 in. (15.1 hands), and put on 120 lbs., to 850. She is still puny compared with other thoroughbreds, who average about 1,100 lbs. Her small stature and undistinguished ancestry prompt some horsemen to label her a freak. "I can't find anything right about her except her record," says Trainer Buddy Raines. "It seems impossible that she has so much quality on the racetrack. If I had my pick...
Just over a year ago, Chairman Robert Elton Brooker of Montgomery Ward & Co. reached out for a major diversification in his effort to end Wards' long streak of low profits-and was rebuffed. Stockholders of Los Angeles-based MSL Industries Inc., with $116 million per year in sales of everything from industrial fasteners to electronic components, rebelled at fusing their young manufacturing company with a troubled old retailer. Last week Brooker found another possible partner, and this time his prospects looked a lot brighter...
...GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD. Beckoned to Elsinore they know not why, Tom Stoppard's neo-Elizabethan protagonists wander through historical events looking for significance and through their lives in search of identity. John Wood, Brian Murray and Paul Hecht share with the audience each nuance of meaning, each streak of mordant...