Word: flair
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back at Cal in September, Savio found a cause to his taste when the university forbade on-campus collections for political ends, including Snick. He also found, in himself, an almost Latin American eloquence (he used to stutter), a sense of demagoguery, and a neat flair for martyrdom. Savio dropped his classes and to lead a self-styled Free Speech Movement aimed at battering down the university's limits on out-of-classroom expression. His gifts were nicely matched by the university's habit of vacillating between concessions and crackdowns. By early last week F.S.M. had won most...
...latest yardstick used by Manhattan's Arthur Wiesenberger & Co., the industry's Boswell), Penn Square Mutual shot up 29% v. a 19% rise in the Dow-Jones industrials, Fidelity Trend rose 27% , and the $744 million Dreyfus Fund, whose symbolic lion gives its sales promotion a distinctive flair, climbed 23% . Among the big funds that emphasize a mixture of growth and in come, United Accumulative Fund rose 17% and Affiliated Fund 16%. Massachusetts Investors Trust, the nation's oldest and second largest ($2.1 billion assets), made a 15% gain. But most funds gained closer...
...after 7-lb. 9-oz. Christopher was delivered, she held a press conference to tell about it. "It beats any show I've been to," trilled Carol, who had stayed awake all through her own production and was later told by her doctor, "You did that with great flair." The hospital wouldn't let her husband, Singer Robert Goulet, 31, in on the act, but that was just as well, since he had refused to take the educated-fatherhood course...
...from middle-class backgrounds, the man who has inherited this tradition was born to great wealth. Mother Copeland was a millionairess, father was a high officer of Du Pont for 40 years, and Lammot Copeland's playmates were mostly his moneyed cousins. From the start, he showed a flair for discovering short cuts. At ten, he entered a family contest in biology in which the little Du Ponts competed to be the first to find and assemble from the Delaware countryside the bones to form the complete skeleton of an animal. Young Copeland did it the easy...
...Canadian citizen since 1942, thomas Bata at 50 is one of the nation's most successful businessmen. He is also one of the most modest in his habits; he does not smoke, drinks sparingly, entertains mostly at business lunches, but allows himself the flair of driving a '64 Mustang. Bata alternates between his Toronto office and his principal manufacturing plant at Batawa, a small town 110 miles east of Toronto named after the company. He frequently wears odd shoes to test his own against competitors', stresses the low-price policy (no Bata shoes cost more than...