Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impatience, the younger officers themselves turned Khanh out, replaced him with a civilian physician and moderate, Dr. Phan Huy Quat, and his "medicine Cabinet." The officers genuinely wanted Quat's civilian government to work so that they could concentrate on prosecuting the war. But without a firm hand, all the old religious and fractional rivalries erupted anew. Quat asked the generals to take over, and reluctantly they did-in the first peaceful transition of power that Saigon had seen since the death of Diem...
...judge went on to say, "to this un lawful misconduct under the guise of civil disobedience, grinding into the dirt the civil rights and liberties of the city's millions, is craven servility and could lead to disaster for all. If responsible officials cannot stand up in firm resist ance, the court will...
Died. Jeannette Kittredge Watson, 82, widow of IBM Founder Thomas J. Watson Sr., mother of Tom Jr. and Arthur K., the firm's chairman and vice chairman, who accompanied her husband on business trips, served as a director and gave the staff an enduring sobriquet, "the IBM Family"; in Manhattan...
Crowell Collier & Macmillan, Inc., as the firm is now known, currently commands 5.3% of the $561 million textbook market. Chairman Hagel, a veteran of McGraw-Hill and the Scripps-Howard chain, who joined Crowell Collier as a consultant in 1957, next moved into another basic-education marketing area: home study. For $3,194,000 he bought a 96% share of the LaSalle Extension University of Chicago, a correspondence school, expanded its courses, and more than quadrupled sales by 1965. He went on to buy the Free Press of Glencoe, Inc., 111., and Science Materials, Inc.; he also invested in Famous...
...Beacon Construction Company, owner of the property, first contemplated construction in the summer of 1964. Nothing happened during the summer, but the next fall the architect said that construction would begin before the summer of 1965. The Amoco station and another firm. Avis Rent-A-Car have remained on the site on a month-to-month basis, not knowing when they would be forced to leave...