Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOUBLE IMAGE, by Helen MacInnes. Master Spywriter MacInnes again pits an innocent and firm-chinned hero against a murderous crew of international spies, and still again the result is a literate and topnotch suspense tale...
...young generation is often a curious blend of old and new. M. V. Arunachalam, 38, who helps direct twelve family companies in southern India, prefers to wear the sheetlike Indian lungi and practices yoga every morning, but he also insisted on automatic elevators in the firm's new nine-story building, and is negotiating with IBM for a computer to handle payrolls and inventory. The Mafatlals, on the other hand, follow the tradition of communal living: the brothers and their families all occupy one five-story, 20-bedroom house. Arvind Mafatlal is a vegetarian, prays an hour every morning...
...Scull" is old hat around here. Ten years or so ago, Bette and I cast our faces in plaster; I had to go first. The casting went as smooth as silk. I even posed on the kitchen floor with a lily in my hand and my face in the firm grip of a plaster mask. I didn't realize how firm a grip it was until I attempted to remove it. (We had used petroleum jelly without the benefit of Saran.) I was hung up by my hair and my eyelashes. My eyebrows pulled out without any fuss...
...Woodmen firm, which had considered leaving Omaha before Sorensen took over, then decided to erect on the old City Hall site a new $20 million building that, at 28 stories, will be Omaha's highest. A savings and loan association followed with a decision to put up a 15-story building. Both companies cited "a changed climate in the mayor's office" as a major factor in their decisions to put up the largest downtown offices built in the city since the 1920s. Sorensen also attacked discrimination in Omaha (10% of the population is Negro) more determinedly than...
...remarkable business successes. He has increased his $16 million inheritance to a net worth of at least $1.5 billion. His Houston-based Hughes Tool Co. makes huge profits from leasing and selling drilling equipment, and from selling Hughes helicopters. California-based Hughes Aircraft Co. is a $300 million electronics firm that makes the Falcon missile and fire-control and electronic systems for fighter planes. On top of his TWA holdings, Hughes owns real estate in Phoenix, Tucson, and Culver City, Calif., that is worth an estimated $250 million...