Word: tiring
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...movie companies have presented a united front against television by refusing to sell their backlog of old films for re-release on TV. Last week came the first big break. The man who made it was Thomas F. O'Neil, 40, son of Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co. President William O'Neil and boss of the company's General Teleradio subsidiary...
Later when the deal was finally sewn up, O'Neil was flown back to General Tire's Akron headquarters to get the board's approval, finally stumbled into bed, groaning: "I haven't had any sleep for 36 hours. He's a very clever man, a very clever man." Hughes's estimated profit: about...
HOWARD HUGHES is near agreement with Thomas O'Neil, president of General Tire's subsidiary, General Teleradio, Inc., on a deal for RKO pictures. O'Neil will pay $22 million ($13 million cash) for RKO's picture-making facilities plus its library of 700 films, use both movies and the studio in his TV business...
...turn to score. At a shishkebab and pilaf supper in Tashkent he found that the people, despite 40 years of complete isolation from the rest of Asia, "still had Asian consciousness." They greeted him with cries of "Salaam aleikum" (may peace be upon you), and in Samarkand the en tire population came out into the streets chanting community songs. Telegrams be gan to pour in from Russian citizens asking permission to name their sons Jawaharlal or their daughters Indira (after Nehru's daughter...
...control station. One rakish little black and red hunting wasp specializes in the praying mantis, ghoulish grizzly of the insect world. Ducking away from the praying mantis' gaping arms, she zooms back and forth like a pendulum behind the giant's head until its narrowly watching eyes tire of keeping track of this baffling tennis game. Then, quicker than human eye can follow, she darts onto the mantis' back and fires her lightning shot...