Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ripe for takeover. Even so, the industry was startled in July when it became known that Houston's scrappy little Texas International Airlines had quietly bought more than 9% of National's stock; later it won Civil Aeronautics Board permission to pick up as much as 25%. As one Wall Street analyst put it, Texas International was a "sardine chasing a shark." Last week the swivel chairs in airline board rooms were spinning again as a whale declared its interest in National. Pan American World Airways, the fifth biggest U.S. airline, said it wanted to buy all of National...
...Louis Rukeyser, then economic correspondent for ABC, it was just another bit of moonlighting. The job: hosting an experimental program produced by the Maryland Center for Public Broadcasting. The time: 1970. The result: Wall Street Week, the wise, witty half-hour review of business and finance that has defied all laws of gravity that usually apply to the tube and become one of public TV's top shows, drawing 5 million viewers every Friday evening. WSW has done more than make its natty 6-ft. 2-in. star the most popular figure on PBS since Sesame Street's Big Bird...
...early 70s, Deak has slowed down only a bit. He runs-not jogs, runs-three to five miles every morning on his own track at his estate in suburban New York. Then he is chauffeured to the global headquarters of Deak & Co., in the Deak-Perera Building near Wall Street, where he directs the largest foreign exchange business in the Western Hemisphere...
Paint their names on a solid oak door and they could be a Wall Street law firm: Monteith & Rand. Put them on a busy street and they would scarcely be noticed: John Monteith, 29, looks like a cheery ad salesman; Suzanne Rand, 28, looks like a Cybill Shepherd with facial expressions. But drop them on a stage-any stage anywhere-and Monteith & Rand are the funniest, most inventive comedy team to come along in years, recalling the days of Nichols...
Just as certainly, the wilderness camper who beds down in grizzly-bear country is not expecting wall-to-wall safety. Yet skiers who fall have tried to hold slope owners liable for their injuries (a verdict awarding $1.5 million to a Vermont skier was upheld by the State Supreme Court), and outdoorsmen who camp in the vicinity of Yellowstone National Park's bears are, when attacked, trying to lay the rap on the Park Service. A camper received leg wounds from one of the bears against which the park constantly warns with signs, brochures and general publicity; the victim...