Word: firm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Having weathered the storm within his own party, Carrington held firm when Nkomo and Mugabe insisted that they still could not agree on a constitution. He offered no further compromise, beyond the suggestion that Britain and other Western governments, certainly including the U.S., would be willing to help bear the financial burden of compensating dispossessed white landholders...
...French-owned automaker, that should help it cope with the expected demand for small, gas-stingy cars. AMC will get $150 million from Renault, $50 million in credits, and the rights to build the French company's newly designed front-wheel-drive car starting in 1982. The U.S. firm would thus have an entry to challenge General Motors' X-body compact cars, which are now being marketed, and the new models that Ford and Chrysler are expected to put into dealers' showrooms. Said AMC Vice President Wilson Sick: "We just couldn't stay in the passenger...
...Touch. Got a firm bod? A squishy one? A squishy one that used to be firm? Does it hurt when you press anywhere? What parts of you jiggle? Where are your muscles clearly defined, where do your bones jut out? Is your skin rough, smooth, oily? Your hair wiry, downy, springy? Does your nose have a lump on it, what does your nose feel like to you? Mine feels like a piece of driftwood, hard but sanded smooth...
...Finnish designer and the dynamo behind Marimekko, the internationally known fabric and fashion house; after a long illness; in Helsinki. In 1949 Ratia quit her advertising job to write a novel and help salvage her husband's threadbare oilcloth company. The novel never was written, but the firm with Ratia as president took shape in 1951 as Marimekko (translation: a little dress for Mary). Ratia's bold-hued, clear-figured prints and the functional clothes she cut from them became Finland's hottest export since the sauna...
DIED. Roger K. Fawcett, 69, president of Fawcett Publications; of cancer; in New York City. The Minnesota-born Fawcett succeeded his father as chief executive officer of the firm, which publishes magazines (Woman's Day, Mechanix Illustrated), paperbacks with the Crest, Gold Medal and Popular Library imprints and Charles Schulz Peanuts books. Fawcett sold the family-owned company to CBS in 1977 for $50 million...