Word: thompson
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Target. Although victorious, Hayes remains vengeful against those who tried to unseat him. Publicly he claims to harbor no grudges and no ambitions other than to run for Governor of Ohio. But privately, at a party celebrating his victory, Hays cornered Thompson and asked for the names of the Congressmen who had urged Thompson to run against him. "You must be out of your mind," Thompson replied, knowing that anyone he fingered would go on an enemies' list and become a target of Hays' retribution...
That statement is rather typical of much Digest prose and opinion. However, if the prosperous magazine (circ. 18.8 million) wanted to convey its views on economics to its readers, why do it in ads paid for by very interested parties? Digest Managing Editor Edward T. Thompson sought to explain: "It is not reasonable to run an article on American business every month. We wouldn't run that many...
Every time I go home these days, all these people keep calling me up all the time to play basketball. It makes no sense, even though I have to admit that it isn't really all these people--just Ed Thompson, and Meyer, and this dude I've disliked ever since we were both eight years old, and his younger brother, and this guy who used to think he was either Captain Scarlet or Matt Busby from the Beatles' White Album but never quite made up his mind which (though it took him only a week to decide he hated...
...matter how many feet behind the foul line it was from, the ball would take this strange trajectory and end up in the basket. If the Institute of Defense Analysis had been around to watch, they'd probably have junked the electronic battlefield. Truck and Meyer and Ed Thompson and Matt Busby just stared and watched, and after awhile even the dude I've disliked since we were both eight years old stopped trying to steal the ball from his teammates because he realized it didn't make any difference. "Where did you learn to shoot that way?" they said...
...nationwide consumer boycott scheduled to end Dec. 10. Some supermarket chains, like Tradewell Stores Inc., which operates in California, Oregon and Washington, are urging customers not to buy sugar at all; in one week the chain's sugar sales dropped 75%, according to Tradewell President Al Thompson. Moreover, the fourfold increase in retail sugar prices so far this year has fattened company profits remarkably, but those profits have also attracted increasing political heat, including Government hearings, a federal grand jury inquiry and a Justice Department investigation...