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...gracefully as he can, the Prince bends with the tide of the times. When the rebels win and Tancredi comes home a hero, the Prince does not refuse a ray or two of reflected glory. Indeed, when Tancredi falls in love with the daughter (Claudia Cardinale) of a rich upstart, the Prince actively supports his suit-even though he knows his own daughter is in love with the boy. "Tancredi will have a brilliant career," he reasons, "and my daughter is too shy for public life. Besides, the boy needs money...
...first to see the possibilities in any new discovery and translate it into practical, useful items." After U.S. scientists at Bell Telephone Laboratories developed the transistor, Sony became the first non-U.S. company to make transistor radios. Older and bigger Japanese companies soon began competing with the upstart, but Sony held its own by successfully invading the U.S. market despite a 12.5% tariff...
...stay unless I got a glove." Picked up by the newborn Angels in 1961, Wagner finally got a chance to play regularly and made the most of it: .280 batting average, 28 homers, 79 RBIs. Last year he supplied the punch (37 homers, 107 RBIs) that kept the upstart Angels in first division. But his big moment came in the second 1962 All-Star game: a sliding circus catch of George Altman's sinking liner that did wonders for Wagner's ego. "Al Kaline may be a better rightfielder than I am," Wagner now concedes expansively...
...brothers, all college-educated in the U.S., were treated as outcasts by their own class when they opened their first store with a loan from their wealthy father, a textile tycoon and onetime store-chain owner himself. Mexico City's department stores banded together to drive out the upstart that dared to offer brassieres at 13% under list, kitchenware at 15% and refrigerators at 20% under. But Mexican shoppers nearly overran the store, sometimes scooping up goods so fast that the brothers had to lock the doors before closing hours. Borrowing a spy-movie technique, department stores staked...
...stodgy sport dominated by older men, Dancer is still regarded as something of an upstart. But the $2 betters who jam the Eastern tracks admire Dancer's aggressive racing tactics ("I like to get out front fast and stay there"), crowd the paddock before each race pleading: "Hey, Dancer! You feelin! O.K. tonight! Hey, Dancer! Win us a few, huh?" His eight-year-old gelding, Su Mac Lad, has won more money ($567,849) than any other trotter in history, in 1961 became the only U.S. horse to win the Roosevelt International, and two weeks ago was named...