Word: avidly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...former Green Bayites and avid Packer backers (180 miles round trip for every home game), we feel that your cover story was the best unexpected Christmas present my husband and I could possibly have received...
...Bloomfield Township almost every night for dinner and seldom brings work with him. "I've never been one who measures the quality of a job by the length of time applied thereto," he says. With his wife Ruth, whom he met at the University of Michigan, he is an avid indoor gardener, raising such exotic plants as orchids and sea grapes. Summer weekends they spend at their cabin on Byram Lake, 45 miles from home, where Townsend water-skis, boats and swims with his three sons...
Died. General Alfredo Kindelán y Duary, 83, chief of General Francisco Franco's rebel air force during the Spanish Civil War, a Cuban-born marquis who as a young man was an avid balloonist fired up by the writings of Jules Verne and H. G. Wells, became Spain's first full-fledged military pilot; of a heart ailment; in Madrid. Though Kindelán was the man in charge in 1937, historians absolve him of blame in the well-remembered bombardment of Guernica, the first time that aircraft were employed systematically to annihilate a defenseless civilian...
...avid hunters and campers know, L. L. Bean Inc. is a profitable anachronism hidden away in the snowy pine forests of northern New England. Bean's wilderness wares are acknowledged to be among the world's best, and each day as many as 5,000 letters flow into the company's rambling yellow factory and mail order headquarters in Freeport, Me. (pop. 4,000). Not long ago, someone in Bali offered to swap two native wood carvings for a pair of Bean hunting boots, and the deal was made. But despite the countless thousands of flashlights, snowshoes...
...much of his success to a single piece of foresight : shrewdly betting that increasingly well-paid British workers could be trusted to pay their bills, he expanded Gussie's sales by pioneering installment-plan selling in Britain. Outside retailing, he has been one of Britain's most avid takeover bidders, buying up company after company in the conviction that inflation would eventually make every one of them worth more than he paid for it. Into a series of holding companies, he has bundled some $70 million worth of investments that give him control of firms ranging from Shell...