Word: titan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Simplot will not say how many of those defaulted contracts were his; he claims not to keep close track of numbers. But he and a fellow potato titan, P.J. Taggeras of Othello, Wash., are believed to own all of them. The Mercantile Exchange has already begun moving against the clearinghouses used by the spudmen. Exchange President Richard Levine said the houses would be liable for the cost of the potatoes and required to pay fines for not abiding by the default rules of the exchange. Presumably, the firms will try to get the money from their defaulting clients...
...mile across. Otherwise, it will pass as close as 1,850 miles from Saturn's cloud tops (compared with 26,725 miles from Jupiter's). It will then be whipped around Saturn by the planet's powerful gravity and sent on a looping path toward Titan, Saturn's biggest moon. Even larger than the earth's moon, Titan may have an atmosphere and harbor some forms of life. To avoid risk of a collision that could contaminate Titan with earthly bugs, Pioneer will come no closer than 12,000 miles. Finally, the spacecraft will head...
Died. Walter Lippmann, 85, sagacious titan of American journalism (see THE PRESS...
...played many parts in his long life, but the image he most preferred to project was that of a simple down-home country boy with a fifth-grade education. Yet when Oil Titan H.L. (for Haroldson Lafayette) Hunt died of an undisclosed illness hi a Dallas hospital last week at the age of 85, he had amassed an estimated personal fortune of $2 billion, putting him on a par with J. Paul Getty and Howard Hughes as one of the world's richest men. The exact extent of his wealth is unknown because Hunt never invested hi anything that...
Muhammed Ali had the radar belt, alright. And the anti-ballistic missiles. But most of all that stomach wall. At one point in the sixth, for a minute and a half, the Master Boxer even covered his face with his gloves and let the titan of punch, the heavy of heavies, the world champion as they once called him, swing at will at that stomach wall...