Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with a U.S.-style convention demonstration in Wembley Stadium. It turned out to be a long (5½ hours), amateurish pastiche of everything from African drums and Indian dancers to slides (which repeatedly jammed) of unemployed miners in the '30s. Deputy Labor Leader George Brown got a far bigger ovation than Wilson, who is a donnishly precise but uninspired orator...
...passed into oblivion. But Charles Harting Percy did not. He applied himself, worked hard and persevered, and by dint of luck and pluck became a wealthy, successful businessman who is now the Republican candidate for Governor in his home state of Illinois, and-who knows?-may become something even bigger before he turns 50. To this day, Percy recalls his conversation with Mr. Silverstein. "I've never forgotten this," he says, "because he was right. It's fun working when you're working for yourself. Having your own equity, working your own business, having a feeling that...
Echoes of Chile's presidential election will be sounding around Latin America for years-and not merely because the Communists were thrashed in their attempt to take power by democratic means. Marxism has never succeeded at the ballot box. The bigger news is the man and the party that won: Eduardo Frei and the Christian Democrats, who are rapidly emerging as a vital new force, not only in Chile but in all of Latin America...
...find bingo playing the most embarrassing of fund-raising devices, and are openly grateful if it is outlawed by state or city ordinances. But 13 states have specifically legalized it; in New Jersey, churches and synagogues grossed $18.5 million last year, and in New York the take is even bigger...
...into office furniture and such auto parts as dashboards. Texas' Lone Star Steel converts local ore into pipes for oilmen, boasts overnight delivery to almost any driller in the Southwest. Says Lone Star Chairman George A. Wilson: "We've just got to give better service than the bigger companies, and do a good job of salesmanship...