Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bearded and brash, Hinds, 47, is a comer from way back. At ten he was sent to a reformatory as a truant. A varsity boxer at the University of Wisconsin, he later taught art. In 1958 he began selling life insurance in Madison, Wis.; fifteen years later, he had sold $20 million in term policies-the highest tally in the land...
...also can be a means of understanding civilizations. The fortress of Victorian dress suggested much about the surrounding world's customs. So did the loose, low-cut flapper lines of the '20s, the Doris Day suburban look of the '50s and, in the '60s, the brash, youthful miniskirts, which gave way to pantsuits and jeans...
...Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's new quarters were a long way from the exquisitely landscaped home across town where he lived until his arrest last week. Yet the House of Detention was not wholly unfamiliar to "Kaku-san," as he was once affectionately nicknamed. In 1948, as a brash young member of the Japanese Diet, he spent three weeks there on charges stemming from a coal industry bribe scandal. His return in abject disgrace brought to full circle the most extraordinary political career in postwar Japan...
Failing Fortunes. That saga is the true story of Genesco Inc., the footwear, apparel and retail giant that W. Maxey Jarman built in Nashville, Tenn. In 1969 Jarman, then 65, turned over the chairmanship to his brash, M.I.T.-educated son Franklin, but retained a firm grip on the corporate purse strings by remaining head of the finance committee. To many, Frank Jarman's ascendancy amounted to rank nepotism-a suspicion that seemed justified when, in 1972, Genesco sales began a steady decline. In 1973 Genesco reported a $52.9 million loss, the first in its history; two years later there...
Vergennes's undercover agent, Beaumarchais, 44, is the brash son of a watchmaker. By charm and ability, he worked hi way into the salons of French aristocracy, and he won Vergennes's confidence in two previous secret missions to London. He first bought up and destroyed the alleged memoirs of Madame du Barry, mistress to the late King Louis XV. He returned to London last year to negotiate for the return of some incriminating documents about a proposed French invasion of England. One of Louis XV's secret agents, the Chevalier...