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Word: ami (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thoughts soon vanish-until the peace and quiet of another weekend beckons. He remains a moody, introverted man who keeps his own counsel. Last year De Gaulle confided to U.S. President John Kennedy the principle that has always guided his own conduct: "And now, Monsieur le President and cher ami, I say this. Listen only to yourself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: LE BOURGEOIS GENTILHOMME | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...Stars and Stripes from the U.S. embassy flag pole and smashed windows in a noisy, well-organized rally. In East Berlin, Red Boss Walter Ulbricht let 250,000 workers and students off for the afternoon as processions marched down Unter den Linden bearing placards labeled "Rescue Cuba" and "Ami go home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The East's Reply | 11/2/1962 | See Source »

Lined up against Chairman Weesner and four fellow Bon Ami officers was a formidable coalition: Tel-A-Sign Inc.. a Chicago billboard manufacturer which last month bought 16.5% (88,703 shares) of Bon Ami's outstanding stock, plus two former Bon Ami employees-ex-Vice President Olen Webb, 40. and his wife Pat, 44. who for more than ten years was Weesner's $12,000-a-year private secretary. Guided by Tel-A-Sign's largest stockholder. Attorney Roy Cohn, 35. onetime Boy Friday to the late Senator Joe McCarthy, the coalition charged that Weesner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Chick & the Macaw | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

Denying all these accusations. Weesner last week insisted that the real purpose of the suit was to "bludgeon" Bon Ami (which showed a $300,000 profit for the first half of this year) into a merger with Tel-A-Sign (which lost $455,000 in the past fiscal year). Bitterly Weesner charged that Pat Webb had taken advantage of her position as his secretary to steal company records, and was now indulging in "distortion of those records, double-dealing, broken agreements." As for the cottage-priced bird cage, Weesner snapped: "Sure I have this macaw. This bird and I take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Chick & the Macaw | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

...still trying to decide how much of this was for the birds and how-much was not. New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur G. Klein had yet to issue a ruling in the case. But with the affidavits and counter affidavits piling up, it seemed likely that the Bon Ami chick would be wriggling uncomfortably in the public eye for some time to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Chick & the Macaw | 9/14/1962 | See Source »

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