Word: convert
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...based Honeywell Inc. can hardly take that line against one discontented stockholder. He is Charles Pillsbury, 22-year-old scion of the family that founded the flour-milling Pillsbury Co. Far from seeking control of Honeywell, young Pillsbury, a senior in Latin American studies at Yale, is trying to convert the proxy fight into an instrument of protest against the Viet...
...never," Nixon said. "A major goal for the next ten years for this country must be to restore the cleanliness of the air, the water, the broader problem of population congestion, transport and the like." Perhaps Nixon's own rediscovery of his transformed native Southern California helped convert him to the cause. He had toured the environs of San Clemente only the day before, and his comments reflected what he had seen. "If you look ahead ten years," he said, "you project population growth, car growth, and that means of course smog growth, water pollution and the rest...
...learned about discrimination at an early age. "I was called a goddamned Armenian," he recalls. "Until I finished grammar school, I think I had a fight every single night." After high school, Garry worked in a cleaning shop while attending the San Francisco Law School at night. A convert to socialism during the Depression, he began his career defending trade unions, which were then in their most militant period...