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Died. Harlow Herbert Curtice, 69, president of General Motors Corp. in 1955 when it produced 3,989,987 cars, more than any other automaker before or since; of a heart attack; in Flint, Mich. (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...years ago, a flint-chipper named Og, whose wife had unsympathetically thrown his collection of tiger teeth out of the cave, began giving one tiger tooth to anybody who bought two of his flints for ten clams. Soon Og found that he was selling flints by the bushel and running so low on tiger teeth that he had to get more-even if it meant hunting tigers. This was a nuisance and expensive; to cover the cost, he raised the price of his flints to 15 clams a pair. And to his astonishment, nobody seemed to care; they went right...
...Detroit. Flint and Muskegon, Kennedy seemed to enjoy battling for the underdog Democratic Governor John Swainson against Republican George Romney. Scorning Romney's attempts to lure Democratic votes. Kennedy drew cheers with the quip: "One of the most interesting political phenomena of our time is to see Republican candidates in various states who run for office and say 'elect the man.' You can't find the word Republican on their literature-and I don't blame them." A different kind of sign greeted Kennedy in Detroit. Said one: "Congratulations J.F.K. on Mississippi Stand...
...What will you do if I double the library budget? What if I make academic standards so high that many members of your community cannot attend this college? What if I tell you that there will be absolutely no proselytizing of athletes?" Assured complete freedom, hard-driving Calvin C. Flint, 56, four years ago accepted the presidency of California's paper-stage Foothill College in Los Altos, 35 miles south of San Francisco. Starting from scratch, Flint has already made Foothill a mountaintop among U.S. junior colleges-the fastest-growing segment of U.S. higher education...
...bowlers, the painters, the weekend sailors). It is they who supply the metropolitan vitality. Unhappily, the part of the metropolis that advertises itself most blatantly to the passing tourist points to the jazz joints on Rush Street or the celebrity seekers in the Peppermint Lounge. Luckily for civilization, the flint of genius strikes its sparks generously on the steel of the city. Artists, writers, philosophers, scientists-all have made the city their natural habitat...