Word: annelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There is the Pearl of the Piedmont, a wide-eyed innocent come to seek her fortune in bustling Charlotte, N.C., and living with her pal, the cheerleader Sis Boombah. There is Mary Ann Singleton, newly arrived in San Francisco and immediately caught up in that city's often kinky lifestyles. In Des Moines, the heroine is Farm Girl Probity Prisswillow who, knowing not what she does, takes a job in a massage parlor. Baby Jill...
...strange events sent a chill through the sprawling Veterans Administration Hospital in Ann Arbor, Mich. Within a six-week period in the summer of 1975, 27 patients, many of them in the intensive-care unit, suffered mysterious breathing failures. Several were stricken more than once, and eleven of the patients died (TIME, March 22, 1976). After an investigation by the FBI. two young Filipino nurses who worked in that section of the hospital were arrested. They were charged with dosing some of the stricken patients with the muscle relaxant Pavulon, which is a synthetic version of curare, the lethal plant...
...purpose. Hezekiah calls it "holistic education," encouraging the child to see how the objects of the world relate to each other. In Brooklyn, for example, a stream of water leads to a paddle wheel, which provides the power for a working gristmill. "Our main goal," says CID Director Ann White Lewin, "is to help children believe in their own creative abilities...
...Beech and General Dynamics Chairman David S. Lewis have been discussing merger prospects for some weeks. Though Olive Ann could come down with a case of wedding-day nerves once again, some veteran Olive Ann watchers believe that this time her merger intentions are for real. While still vigorous at 73, she is thought by many associates to be anxious to settle the future control of her company while she is still in active command. With some 20% of Beech's stock held by Olive Ann, her two daughters (who have no role in management) and a nephew, Frank...
Though Olive Ann Beech never learned to fly, her managerial skills brought the company through some problems at the turn of the decade, when the Viet Nam-warped economy hit sales hard. Rebounding from a loss of $7.7 million in fiscal 1970, the company has set new profit records in each of the past four years. So, far this year, sales are 22% ahead of 1976, when the company earned $20 million on revenues of $346 million. Thanks in part to rapidly growing defense business-in the past two years Beech has won more than $150 million in contracts...