Word: carr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calvinistic Compulsion. The Texas to which the Murchison boys returned was changing fast, was no longer just a cornucopia shaped like an oil well. Among the Dallas millionaires, Trammell Crow made his fortune by building and operating warehouses in a dozen states, and Carr P. Collins and his sons got their multimillion-dollar stake in the insurance business. Texas Instruments Chairman Erik Jonsson was busy piling up what eventually became $100 million in electronics, and Leo Corrigan was rapidly multiplying his wealth by building a hotel combine that now stretches from the Bahamas to Hong Kong...
...Burn the Museums!" Inspired by the Marinetti manifesto, a second appeared the next year signed by the painters Umberto Boccioni, Carlo Carrà, Luigi Russolo, Gino Severini and Giacomo Balla-futurism's big five. Among other things, it declared that THE NAME OF "MAD MAN" WITH WHICH IT IS ATTEMPTED TO GAG ALL INNOVATORS SHOULD BE LOOKED UPON AS A TITLE OF HONOR. The five themselves sounded a bit mad with anti-tradition slogans of "Burn the museums!" and "Drain the canals of Venice!" But their underlying purpose could not have been more serious. "We choose to concentrate...
...weeks later, the Cubans got together independently for four days in Room 125 of Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, where they finally agreed to cooperate. The pact was sealed in a banquet room of the Skyway Motel, Miami. There, say the exiles, a CIA agent named Carr called for "democratic agreement of all present in order to choose a chief or President, who would head the provisional government later." The choice of the Revolutionary Council, as the joint Frente-M.R.P. group was named: José Miró Cardona, a man whose career has been based on mediation and compromise...
...defeat caught up everybody concerned-Artime, the CIA, the Pentagon planners, President Kennedy, Miró and the Revolutionary Council. At the news, Bender and Carr broke down and cried...
There had been space shots before and riots before, but last week the news somehow became very personal. "With all the funny names and the comic-opera behavior," said Myrtle Carr in Atlanta, "I'm not sure we really believed the stories about the Congo until we saw people fighting right in the United Nations." Customers on the television floor of Marshall Field's department store in Chicago watched the incredible U.N. riot on a floor model. Said a salesclerk: "They were stunned. They just stood there with their mouths open. They didn't believe...