Word: fergusons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sunday night. Except for Sunday's concert, scheduled for 6 p.m., all the concerts will begin at 8 p.m. The concerts will feature over thirty different jazz groups, including the Duke Ellington Orchestra, Thelonious Monk, Nina Simone, Dizzy Gillespie, Gerry Mulligan, Sunny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane and Maynard Ferguson...
Timothy F. Leary, lecturer on Clinical Psychology, stressed the need for his organization, to supervise individuals with the drugs and to provide medical, legal, and financial support to experiments. Leary joined Richard Alpert, assistant professor of Clinical Psychology, and Frank Ferguson, executive secretary of IFIF, in saying that the drugs should not be put on the open market because the public at large is "not ready" to use them intelligently...
...skills to reviving faltering firms. Unlike investment companies that pop in and out of situations for quick profits, Argus gains working control of a company and stays on to guide it with its own hand-picked management team. It has brought a dramatic revival to Farm-Machinery Maker Massey-Ferguson (TIME, June 15), organized Dominion Tar & Chemical Co. into a $340 million sales giant that makes everything from table salt to precast concrete, and built Dominion Stores into Canada's largest supermarket chain (350 stores). Argus also controls Canadian gold and iron mines, plywood and lumber mills, shopping centers...
Taylor did a wartime stint as a dollar-a-year man (much of it in Washington procuring arms for the British), at war's end decided to branch out from brewing and began borrowing heavily to buy Massey-Ferguson stock. His fellow Canadians did not have much faith in Taylor; the betting at the Toronto Club was 5-50 that he would go broke. The odds looked prophetic when he soon overextended himself. But, with superb ingenuity and timing, he formed Argus so that he could sell its stock to raise money to pay off his loans. As partners...
Back row: Richard L. Goldstein '64, of Lowell House and Rochester, N.Y. (advertising manager); Albert B. Crenshaw '64, of Leverett House and Lexington, Va. (re-elected photographic chairman); and Robert A. Ferguson '64, of Lowell House and Baltimore, Md. (sports editor...