Word: successful
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...racial partnership." And what does that mean? "When my cook and I put on a dinner and it's a failure, both of us are at fault," explains Boss Lilford's wife Doris. "When my cook and I put on a dinner and it's a success, both of us deserve the credit. That is partnership...
...away with his exercise boys. Lt. Stevens once threw Jockey Johnny Heckmann so heavily that Heckmann was out of action for two months. Moccasin, insists Trainer Harry Trotsek, 53, is "a perfect lady," so mild-mannered and businesslike that Trotsek refuses to take any personal credit for her success. "Good horses," he says, "overcome all sorts of things-including their trainers...
Awfully Dangerous. The most remarkable thing about Princeton's success is that its attack is built around a formation that went out of style with bloomers: the single wing, in which the center passes the ball directly to the deep backs rather than handing it to the quarterback as in the T formation. A reluctant innovator, Coach Dick Colman has dressed up his offense with fancy shifts (into the I formation and the Notre Dame box), pass-run option plays and the like-all of which scare him as much as they do his opponents. "We're playing...
Everyone aims to duplicate the success of Xerox, whose sales since 1960 have multiplied from $40 million to almost $400 million, and are expanding 50% yearly. Many competitors pay tribute to Xerox-in dollars. Xerox collects an enviable but undisclosed sum in royalties from such companies as Apeco, SCM and Bruning, which lease and sell their own machines and market the zinc oxide-coated paper that Xerox has patented. Meanwhile, Xerox has discarded the coated-paper means of copying, now uses plain paper. While competitors argue that their copies are cheaper-about 310 each v. Xerox's 50 -Xerox...
...first car in 1899, went on to design the first Volkswagen in 1936. He also had a hand in designing the Panther, Elefant and Tiger tanks that terrorized Europe in World War II, spent two years in a French prison as a war criminal. Porsche's postwar success is a product of his son, Ferry Porsche, 56, a cautious, brooding engineer. Ferry brought Porsche from a garage in Gmünd, Austria to a glass-and-concrete factory outside Stuttgart, where 2,400 workers now turn out 56 cars a day-every one handmade and every engine stamped with...