Word: roster
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When it came to Boston Garden Dec. 16 for a battle with Boston College, Harvard sported a 12-man roster featuring nine players who had had just two weeks of college varsity experience...
...there that the teeth in the Bear showed most clearly. His first training camp, held at Junction, Texas, was closer to Stalag 17 than a gathering of young athletes. Two busloads, 115 players on football scholarships, went to Junction. When it was over, 27 men remained on the roster. The surviving Aggies won a single game that year, the only losing season in Bryant's 34-year career as a head coach; they lost just five games over the next three seasons...
Despite the reaction of shock and anger, the Nationalists have long known that the change was coming. Expelled from the U.N. to make room for Peking's delegation in 1971, Taiwan last week could count only a sad roster of 22 foreign countries that still recognize its government. Nearly 50 had switched to Peking. Among the holdouts, only Saudi Arabia carries weight internationally...
Coury, playing guarded, projects RSO business for next year at 75% of 1978, but admits: "That's a lot." The Bee Gees are dishing up a new album in February that Coury predicts will be "a gorilla." There will be new albums from the small roster of 13 RSO acts, and a record package of Evita, a pop-top opera about Eva Peron that is S.R.O. in London. Al Coury has to love it all. "I don't love vacuum cleaners and underwear. But I love music, and I can sell it." And it will be sold. What comes...
...deal, which is expected to get easy approval from both firms' stockholders, would further increase Interpublic's foreign business, which already accounts for 53% of its revenues ($248.5 million last year). Three-fourths of SSC&B's revenues ($113 million) came from abroad last year. Besides a solid roster of packaged-goods clients (Lever Bros, and American Brands, among others), SSC&B has a reputation for market-research savvy as well as a strong management. Says Interpublic Chairman Paul Foley: "In an acquisition like this, you look for the best professionals. That's the real asset you acquire...