Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with honors, with a bewildering collection of side jobs that ranged from bill collector to tourist guide. After graduation he worked for two years, borrowed $3,000 to go to Harvard Law School, went back to Hawaii in 1935 with his degree and "10? in my pocket." The law firm he founded is wonderfully Hawaiian-Fong, Miho, Choy & Robinson -Chinese, Japanese. Korean and Caucasian, in that order. He plunged energetically into politics, and after the war into business, is now the president of six prospering companies (real estate, insurance, shopping centers, loans and investments, and a banana plantation), has spent...
...Lenin, Russia's vaunted atomic icebreaker, and Vice Admiral Hyman Rickover asked to visit the ship's reactor room-only to be told that it was "closed" for the day. "Nonsense," snapped Atomic Expert Rickover, "the reactor room is never closed." From Nixon himself Rickover got the firm order: "You stay here an extra day if necessary, and say that it is our understanding that you see just as much as Kozlov...
...Empire State Music Festival owes much of its vigor to Minnesota-born Impresario Frank Forest, 54. Forest studied agricultural engineering at the University of Minnesota, later helped found a profitable pharmaceutical firm (White Laboratories of Kenilworth, N.J.), gave up business to follow a lifelong interest in singing. He spent twelve years performing leading tenor roles in opera houses all over Europe, also appeared in a number of films (Champagne Waltz, I'll Take Romance with Grace Moore). In 1955 he started pouring his energies and money into the creation of the Empire State Festival...
...adult life, and some of his childhood, in small business. He was born in Grand Rapids in 1893, one year after his German-born father established a furniture factory there. At 13 he was put to work in the factory, 16 years later was its general manager. The family firm still employs fewer than 100 workers, but Fritz Mueller has spread its name and fame by being a prodigious civic-affairs man-president of the Grand Rapids Furniture Makers Guild, the local United Hospital Fund, the Chamber of Commerce, and football-boosting member of the governing board of Michigan State...
...assurance was welcome to Berliners, and so was Herter. He returned to Geneva refreshed by his enthusiastic reception. The only dismaying thing about the trip was the need for it. As things were going at Geneva, a little reassurance all around was necessary. The West was being firm about defending Berlin "rights" but flexible about discussing Berlin "arrangements"; Herter worried that West Berlin morale might some day be affected by misunderstanding of such fine diplomatic distinctions...