Word: vic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Dennis Menke, Burleigh Grimes (the last legal spitball pitcher), Vic Wertz, Joe DiMaggio, and Tommy Henrich...
...president for 20 months: "Believe it or not, he doesn't like to walk into a room alone. At parties, he is not for giving all the women a kiss, the way some people do." While lacocca is often seen in public with the likes of Sinatra, Singer Vic Damone and Yankees Owner George Steinbrenner, he seems most comfortable in the company of his own family...
...into the Westin St. Francis Hotel's $1,200-a-night Presidential Suite. (The U.S. Government picked up the tab.) Nancy Reagan, in turn, got the London Suite (the irony was accidental). The trio and their courtiers later hooked up at the Trafalgar Room (also happenstance) in Trader Vic's restaurant...
With fifty seconds gone in the first period of his match, Harvard heavyweight Jim Phills pinned Princeton's Vic Rauterbush to gain a 20-19 victory over one of Harvard's leading opponents for the Ivy League title. Combined with a 29-15 victory over Penn on Friday, the Crimson stands tied for first place in the League with Cornell with 2-0 records...
Commodore VIC-20 ($299). Skillful packaging and aggressive marketing helped make this machine the surprise bestseller of 1982: between 600,000 and 1 million sold. The VIC has the only cut-rate keyboard suitable for touch typing, and when hooked up to a $110 telephone modem, it becomes an inexpensive electronic mail terminal. There have been software shortages, but more programs are being written to meet the new demand. The Commodore 64, a $595 version that packs the memory capacity of some machines three times its price, arrived late in 1982 and could be a big seller...