Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...beneficiary of the capitalist system," says George Deffet, the 40-year-old head of a $30 million-a-year construction and real estate development company that he built from scratch in Columbus. Deffet has profited to the tune of a $17 million personal fortune, but he adds: "If the benefits can't be made available to others-because of the color of their skin or whatever-then dammit, our system doesn't work...
Died. Fred Lazarus Jr., 88, retailing wizard who started as a collar salesman in his family's Columbus store and became organizer and, in 1945, president of Federated Department Stores, Inc., a coast-to-coast retailing combine that now includes Bloomingdale's of New York, Filene's of Boston, Bullock's of California, and the original F. & R. Lazarus store in Columbus; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...
JOSEPH R. PALMER, PH.D. Deputy Director Department of Rehabilitation and Correction Columbus...
Only in America could you fill The Golden Bowl with seltzer and sell it. Few writers have had the talent and self-awareness to exploit such a cultural aberration as well as Roth. He fizzed onto the scene in 1959 with the award-winning Goodbye, Columbus, a novella whose tartness and clarity showed precisely what it was like to be a young Jew from Newark, N.J., ashamed of his lower-middle-class background and humiliated by the pretensions of the suburban newly rich. There followed two grim and carefully worked novels in which Roth misplaced his fresh, astringent tone. Letting...
...Apollo lunar expeditions. But Skylab's mission will have far-reaching consequences. It will help determine if man can live and work in space for the extended periods of time necessary to make round trips to the other planets or moons. "On Apollo we were like Christopher Columbus going into the unknown," says former Apollo Director Rocco Petrone. "With Skylab, we are more like the Pilgrims trying to settle the New World...