Word: striker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dixon's early years were not marred by controversy. Under his leadership, Antioch abolished grades, vigorously recruited black students and experimented with dropping all required freshman courses. He was well liked by both faculty and students. Says Striker Jamie Dahlberg: "He used to be a really great guy. But something happened. I'm not sure what." In 1970 Dixon and the trustees took Antioch even farther, launching a "New Directions" program that upset the balance in the fishbowl...
Minnie Magazine's technical counterpart is Communications Manager John Striker, who during the past 18 years has helped expand the network of Teletype, telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities that serves Time Inc.; since 1962, he has added Bangkok, Singapore, Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Moscow, Nairobi, New Delhi and Beirut to the list of bureaus linked directly by telex with New York. In Saigon on a trouble-shooting mission in 1965, Striker improved world communications with South Viet Nam by opening the first private radio-cable circuit to New York via Manila. In 1967, when we sensed the need...
Although satellites and other technological advances have made their jobs easier, Striker and Magazine still encounter calamities. Sunspots adversely affect radio circuits, and fishing trawlers periodically slice transoceanic cables. Heavy September rains in the New York area drowned out most of our private teleprinter lines. Sometimes the gap is bridged by switching to conventional telegraph ("overheading," in our argot). On those rare occasions when all lines fail, we fall back on manpower. The communications crush during the Attica prison riot got so bad at one point that some material for last week's cover story had to be flown...
...piecework that there is hardly time even to go to the toilet. The image of Charlie Chaplin, in Modern Times, leaving a plant and turning and twisting an invisible wrench all the way home is less funny than ever. "Do you know what I do?" asks a striker outside G.M.'s assembly plant at Tarrytown, N.Y. "I fix seven bolts. Seven bolts! Day in and day out, the same seven bolts. What do I think about? Raquel Welch...
Secondly, the 4-4-2 appears better suited to the talents of the individual forwards on the Crimson squad. Solomon Gomez and Charlie Thomas, who combined for 31 goals last year, are probably the two most dangerous scorers in the Ivy League. At the striker positions, the Gambian tandem will be in position to score at any moment...