Word: broadens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...presented his prize catch to newsmen, he recalled the precedent set by Bunkie's father. Big Bill Knudsen had worked for ten years at Ford, rising to production manager, before he quit in 1921 after Henry Ford I had rejected his advice to abandon the Model T and broaden Ford's one-product line. Moving shortly to General Motors as vice president of Chevrolet, Knudsen gave Chevrolet the pickup that put it ahead of Ford. His reward was G.M.'s presidency. "Today," said Henry Ford II, "the flow of history is reversed...
After a year at Dartmouth and an engineering degree from M.I.T. ('36), Bunkie went to work for a Detroit machine shop. He reached Pontiac in 1939 as a menial "tool chaser." Then, for a decade, he tried out anything that might broaden his experience from defense-plant inspector to car-assembly superintendent...
...Israel [Jan. 19], you failed to mention the all-important consideration that these facilities were financed entirely by private contributions, whereas Orthodox synagogues, schools and even office buildings are funded by the state. The Orthodox establishment guards jealously against any attempts to separate church and state and to broaden the religious base in Israel...
...McCarthy, re-examining his image after seven weeks of campaigning for the presidency as a peace candidate, concluded that he came across more as a poet than an electable politician. Accordingly, on a swing through California last week, the Minnesota Democrat broke away from his somewhat aseptic form to broaden his attack on the Johnson Administration. Unimpressed, Stanford University's pro-McCarthy newspaper welcomed his campus visit with the disenchanted demand: "Does Eugene McCarthy want to make righteous speeches or does he want to end the Viet Nam war?" Un less Senator McCarthy's "passion gap" could...
...next few decades will tell. In that time, the best of the new generation will vastly broaden their repertories and deepen their musical insights. As for Mehta, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky believes that "his ability as conductor is unlimited. His capacity to learn is absolutely astonishing...