Word: enthusiast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...checkbooks in hand. The press representing the smaller papers kept to the backs of rooms, appeared pink-cheeked and pleasant, proved deadly when cornered ("Out of my way!" shrieked one Midwest reporter caught in an entrance crush, delivering side jabs and bloody noses with the efficiency of a karate enthusiast). They met between shows over bitter coffee, confided their impressions the way girls will, and the way girls will, betrayed one another to say it first in print...
Defeated by 3,000 votes on Election Day, Republican Candidate Don Clausen never stopped campaigning. A longtime airplane enthusiast (he was one of the first pilots to join the search when Miller's plane was reported missing), earnest, energetic Insurance Man Clausen, 39, flew up and down the huge district in his own Piper Apache, preaching his theme that Big Government in Washington had become "unmanageable." The California Republican Committee gave him a lot of support, including "victory squad" volunteers from Southern California to help get out the vote...
...reach $1.4 billion-a 25% increase over 1961. The total number of Volkswagens produced this year will be well over a million, which will put VW second only to G.M.'s Chevrolet Division as the world's biggest producer of a single make of auto. Biggest enthusiast of the beetle outside West Germany is still the U.S. motorist. While most German exports leveled off this year, Volkswagen's U.S. sales rose 13% to 230,000 cars, trucks and station wagons. The number of VWs registered in the U.S. has now passed 1,000,000, and currently...
Died. Lee Hastings Bristol, 69, suave board chairman of Bristol-Myers Co., middle son of Co-Founder William M. Bristol, an advertising enthusiast who put his firm's jingles on the air in the 1920s (later sponsored Duffy's Tavern, Mr. District Attorney) and so, by feeding back up to 26% of sales into promotion, helped build the small pharmaceutical house into a $160 million-a-year top drugmaker; of a heart attack; in Point Pleasant...
...This Frenchman, who has so much order in his mind and so little in his acts, this logician who doubts everything, this lackadaisical hard worker, this enthusiast for tail coats and public gardens who goes about in sloppy clothes and strews the grass with litter, in short, this fickle, uncertain, contradictory nation-how could the Teuton sympathize with it, understand it, or trust...