Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slight, stooped electrical engineer, Shapp, 53, parlayed an investment of $500 into the Jerrold Corp., a multi-million-dollar electronics firm. He had hankered for political office for years, only to be given the polite brushoff by politicians more interested in his cash than his candidacy. Denied the senatorial nomination in 1964, Shapp decided that 1966 was the year to go it alone...
...Eugene Nickerson, 47, chief executive of Nassau County, was the first to enter the race, in February. Samuels, 46, and Roosevelt, 51, joined him last week. Samuels, an articulate campaigner brimming with reformist zeal, is known as "the Baggie king," after one of the products of his plastic-packaging firm. Defeated in the 1962 convention scramble, he has a pretty wife, eight attractive children,* and no reluctance to use them as political assets. Samuels stretched his announcement into a swinging two-day foray by chartered plane to Washington and six New York State cities, freely dispensing food, wine and happy...
...good deal of its quality and detail. The accompanying color pictures, taken on one such tour, show smiling children in their best dress, model schools, other civic projects and an air of brisk, bright uplift -but they also make clear the ceaseless indoctrination, the careful regimentation and the firm discipline that pervade life in Red China...
...life where its moral purpose might help alleviate the sorrows of existence. Without forsaking its tradition of activism, the society is concerned about the intellectual problem of articulating a system of moral values and standards that can survive an age of relativism. More than ever, Ethical Culture stands firm in its belief that the society will always be a haven for spiritually minded men and women who desire to serve humanity without serving divinity as well...
...Gard Wiggins, administrative vicepresident, said yesterday that a report the architects, the Boston firm of Shepley, Bulfinch, Richardson, and Abbot, is expected in several weeks. Shepley-Bulfinch is the same firm that designed Leverett Towers and the new section of Quincy House...