Word: enthusiasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flying enthusiast who has logged over 5,000 hours, Maytag four years ago bought control of Colorado's small Frontier Airlines. Shy and retiring, he hired topnotch airline experts to manage day-to-day operations, was seldom seen by his 1,081 employees. But under his direction, Frontier flourished. Maytag sent his "Sunliners" into 25 new communities, improved equipment, and increased profits 75%. Last month he sold his interest in Frontier to Nevada's Goldfield Consolidated Mines for $3,000,000. Reason: "I was frustrated...
...London have more respect than its principal patron, Seymour H. Knox, 63. A small (5 ft. 5 in.), peppery man who is a crack polo and court tennis player as well as a director of six major companies (Marine Midland Trust Co., F. W. Woolworth), Knox is a born enthusiast-and his chief enthusiasm is modern...
...sailplane enthusiast, the best things in life are a cramped cockpit, a long slender wing, a stout updraft, and unending miles of sky. Given these things, plus ice to suck and fruit to munch, he will soar hawklike for hours on invisible fountains of air, wrapped in a silence so absolute that he can hear the faint whistle of a train passing below. Last week, in the 28th annual national soaring championships at Wichita's municipal airport, the pick of the U.S.'s 2,500 sailplane pilots were living the good life high above the Kansas plains...
...proposing a marriage of Hatfield to McCoy. That it could be seriously put forward by so hardheaded and experienced a pro of churchmanship as Eugene Carson Blake has surprised many an old ecumenical hand and given new hope to many more. A Bill of Principles. Dr. Blake is an enthusiast: he acts not out of fear that Protestantism is withering away but because he senses a new dynamism in the Protestant churches and believes that unity is necessary to express it. He is well aware that it would be unwise to make too specific a blueprint at this stage...
...Master's Touch. Fawcus found a fellow enthusiast in the cathedral's choirmaster, Abbé Denis Grivot. Fired by Fawcus' visit, the abbé started an investigation with the help of London University's expert on Romanesque art, George Zarnecki. After twelve years of study, Grivot and Zarnecki wrote the book that Fawcus' Trianon Press published...