Word: troy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back at the ranch in Texas, the Murchisons were tight-lipped-but keeping their powder dry. Scarcely had Kirby made his move when the Murchisons sold off to Dallas Millionaire Troy Post for $17.5 million almost all their holdings in Florida's Gulf Life Insurance Co. Immediately, the financial world buzzed with talk that the Murchisons expected Kirby to launch a new proxy war for control of Alleghany and that the brothers planned to use the Gulf Life proceeds to pay off the debts they had incurred in the first Alleghany battle so that they could negotiate new loans...
...mind's habit: that pretence to lead the national uprising of another race." But the destruction of one myth only created a more complex modern myth-that of the flawed, wounded hero on the order of Philoctetes, whose invincible bow was necessary for the winning of Troy, but whose wound so stank that men shrank from him in horror and disgust...
...Ohio's smoky mill towns, the nursery schools for some of the best pro football players in the U.S.. Ferguson was a legend before he even finished Troy High School, 73 miles west of Columbus. He was so big when he entered Troy-a rock-solid 195 Ibs.-that school officials had to send out mimeographed copies of his birth certificate to quell complaints from rival coaches. Soon the coaches had better reason to gripe. After dropping its first three games during Ferguson's freshman year, Troy never lost another while he was around. College recruiters, awed...
...dilapidated grandeur, is an intimately candid inquiry based on the French axiom that discussion is the better part of indiscretion. It turns out that the Beaurevers belong to a low-fidelity set. Husband Benjamin (Walter Matthau) has been frolicking with Josefa himself after banking hours, and Wife Dominique (Louise Troy) has been slipping with her husband's best friend. The question seems to be whether Josefa or Benjamin had the best motive for doing the worst to that Spanish chauffeur...
Judged on the Washington level, there seem to be several flaws. "Attacking the Army's problems is like uncovering Troy," says one Army officer. "You always find another layer." Says a top Defense Department official: "I look at the whole mess more in sorrow than in anger." In part, the Army's troubles stem from the Eisenhower Administration's "new look" decision to get a bigger bang for a buck by curtailing the weapons of conventional war and concentrating on the massive nuclear deterrent. From a peak strength of 1,668,579 men and a budget...