Word: flints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tornado ten years ago swept through Flint, Mich., and tore up the town. Afterward, hundreds of people came from miles around to pitch in and help rebuild. Up walked an old geezer wearing a carpenter's apron and carrying his own hammer and nails. When he tried to climb a ladder to help nail roofing, a foreman shooed him away. The would-be carpenter was furious. "They think I'm too old!" he grumped. "That's all nonsense. I can outwork half these guys, and I'm as handy with a hammer as the next...
...then. He is 88 today, and still as flinty and nosy and energetic as ever (though he had to give up tennis at 75). His gesture was characteristic of the man they call "Mr. Flint." His real name is Charles Stewart Mott. He is a multimillionaire philanthropist and the biggest benefactor that Flint-or most any other city-has ever seen...
...report put out by the Securities and Exchange Commission last week that broke the news. Mott has made a gift of 1,826,421 shares of General Motors common stock -worth more than $128 million-to the nonprofit Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, benefactor of the people and institutions of Flint...
Axles & Applewood. When Mott arrived in Flint in 1906, the city already was a boomlet auto town. Mott, who had been trained as a mechanical engineer, was president of the Weston-Mott Co., manufacturers of wheels and axles. General Motors bought him out, made him a director and, in the process, the largest single stockholder in the corporation. Mott still owns outright, or controls in trust, another 800,000 or so G.M. shares, controls several banks, ten municipal water companies, four department stores and a sugar company...
...smokers who want to avoid flameout: a hurricane-proof cigarette lighter that needs no flint or fuel. Powered by a nickel-cadmium battery that never needs replacement, the Gulton lighter uses a glowing filament like a dashboard lighter. It can be recharged (about three packs' worth) by plugging it into any AC wall outlet. Price...