Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...conservative, he has been a consistent opponent of the Viet Nam war; for the past year, he has written about little else. He is blunt-crusty, even-but never rash. As a man who does not hesitate to speak his own mind, he has made it a firm policy to let others speak theirs...
Died. Josiah Wedgwood, 68, namesake and last family chairman (1947-67) of the British pottery firm that has for 209 years made flawless china and earthenware for both king and commoner; in London...
...tough, independent-minded party, the Socialists in Bonn have become in creasingly restless of late in their alliance with the Christian Democrats. One result is that some important legislation, including a plan for voting reform that would weaken the National Democrats, has been unable to attract the firm support it needs to pass...
...language takes over the firm, juggling its personnel so thoroughly that Gross finds himself demoted to staff watcher, for which he must monitor peepholes into five offices at once. Eventually he persuades a secretary to make an unauthorized translation of his memo-which turns out to be a document praising his opposition to the spread of Ptydepe. Restored at last to his post as director, Gross has been so depersonalized himself that when the secretary appeals to him to keep her from being fired for translating his memo, he cannot even put in a good word for her. It might...
Night after night, two planes packed with 20 tons of hair curlers took off from Copenhagen. In seven weeks last spring, 350,000 heat-retaining Carmen Curler sets were airlifted to New York on rush order from the U.S. beauty firm, Clairol. Labeled "Carmen" or "Kindness" and marketed by Clairol, nearly a million of the Danish-made curlers have already been snatched up by American women, for prices ranging from $13 to $40 a set. An additional 500,000 were sold in more than a score of other countries...