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Brash, bold and bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald...
Since 1964, Hiatt has also served as consultant in medicine to the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital and to the Children's Hospital. He is a visiting consultant to the Imperial Cancer Research Unit in London...
Since consumer goods are scarce at home, Russian tourists are always bent on shopping. However eager to please, Saks Fifth Avenue is bound to be stumped by requests for "a ladies' worsted-nylon swimming pants." Salesmen at sporting goods stores will be equally bemused by: "Do you suggest a gun with a rubber or spring sear?" And how are the stylists at a beauty salon to comply with such requests as "make me a hair-dress," "sprinkle my head," or, God forbid, "I want my hair frizzled...
...happy anniversary in any case. Cambodians are less and less enamored of the mystical and sometimes maddeningly extemporaneous Marshal Lon Nol, who seems bent on re-establishing a Sihanouk-style autocracy. When the rockets hit, Lon Nol was deep in a political crisis that was very largely of his own making. Three weeks ago, he threw the country's campuses into turmoil by declaring himself chief of state and abolishing a constituent assembly that was about to promulgate a long-awaited new constitution establishing presidential government. Lon Nol did not care for some of the constitution's features...
...night that he was practically stupefied." And the other was shot "over there between the bushes and the dining hall"; the tone suggested the danger of any black man being in the bushes. In any case, the defense maintained, the shootings had been provoked by "agitators." "Were these agitators bent and determined on violence?" asked Rufus Creek more. "Well, I think they were...