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Word: firmed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Norstad's view, the U.S. should "give serious consideration" to such possible moves as an unconditional bombing suspension and a unilateral ceasefire if those actions could bring Hanoi to the negotiating table. Moreover, he reasoned, a firm program for peace in Viet Nam would "unite the people of the United States in a sense of national purpose" and "stop the erosion of our credibility." Once those goals were attained, he said, "we should have convinced Hanoi that it is more profitable to come to the conference table than to delay." That might be a bit too much to hope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The War: Rancors Aweigh | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...grammar school that she wanted to become a doctor. Penniless when she finished pre-med courses at New York City's Hunter College in the depths of the Depression, she toiled twelve years as a white-collar worker in a trucking company, saving $12,000 while helping the firm increase sixfold in size. Then, after four years at Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons, she spent ten years as intern, resident and ultimately chief of clinics at the Cornell Division of New York City's Bellevue Hospital Center, and built up a flourishing Park Avenue practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Doctors: Miracle in Charcoal Alley | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...high as management might like, but I.C.I., the world's second largest chemical manufacturer (after Du Pont), has revitalized itself in the face of increasing competition and falling world prices in key chemicals. Under Chambers, an economist, the company brought in a U.S. management-consultant firm to streamline its organization, moved more vigorously into plastics and synthetic fibers, expanded research in such products as weed killers, antimalarial drugs and fertilizers. Chambers also prodded I.C.I.'s eight product divisions and 257 subsidiaries into becoming more aggressive in staking out new markets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: Sirs Paul and Peter | 11/17/1967 | See Source »

...TIROS weather satellite, contributed to the Gemini flights, is now concentrating on components for the Apollo program. For national defense, the corporation was a major supplier of electronic control equipment used by the Minuteman missile program. It has also branched into new fields, acquiring Hertz Corp. and the publishing firm of Random House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: On His Own | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

...financial talent dovetails with Seabrook's knack for curing sick companies. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate ('39) of Princeton, Seabrook first rescued his own family company, Seabrook Farms, from a disastrous slump. In 1959, when his father, now dead, sold control of the frozen-food firm, Seabrook quit as president and joined Butcher. He became president of I.U. in 1965, and of General Waterworks last year. Often his doctoring of acquisitions involves nothing more startling than sending in a financial expert to bail out a sales-minded boss. "A lot of companies are mismanaged by the president because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Utilities: Marriage Inside the Family | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

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