Word: jims
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...current Vatican construction is a sleek new papal audience hall designed by Pier Luigi Nervi, with well-planned, air-conditioned facilities for 14,000 pilgrims. Once it goes into use, the atmospheric old St. Peter's audiences will fade forever. Last week TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief Jim Bell revisited one to savor the sights and sounds -and smells-for the last time. His report...
Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was hopping mad. "This is a horrible piece of writing!" he fumed at Houston Astro Pitcher Jim Bouton, author of a new book called Ball Four. According to sources close to the commissioner's office, Kuhn went on: "You've done the game a grave disservice. Saying players kissed on the Seattle team bus-incredible! Or that some of our greatest stars were drunk on the field. What can you be thinking...
...more than greenies to keep from turning red when asked about the book. St. Louis Cardinal Pitcher Bob Gibson: "He stabbed his friends in the back for money." Astro First Baseman Joe Pepitone: "Why didn't he write that he is the horniest guy in baseball?" Mickey Mantle: "Jim...
...business conglomerate was far in the future when James Buchanan Brady, otherwise known as Diamond Jim, founded U.S. Industries, Inc., in 1899. Today USI is a conglomerate with a difference that he would have appreciated. Since 1965, its sales have doubled, to $1.1 billion last year, and net profits have nearly tripled, to $63 million, a healthy 18% on invested capital. In the first quarter of 1970, when many other conglomerates were going through the wringer, USI raised its sales by 12% and its earnings by 16% over the same period...
...learned the lesson of diversification the hard way. It was originally founded by Diamond Jim solely to manufacture freight cars, then went into presses and pressed steel-cyclical areas vulnerable to economic ups and downs. By the 1950s, USI was not doing well. Billera joined the company as treasurer in 1953 at the insistence of USI's bankers, and threatened to resign several times over what he considered to be the company's wrong-headed diversification policy. In 1965, Billera took over as president, and set out to put his own ideas into effect. He had already...