Word: folded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thrifty's President Wilbur Fisk Stemmons, 50, a onetime used-car salesman, already has a fleet of 140 new autos, and sales running at the rate of $500,000 a year. Many other cut-rate car rental companies are also springing up across the U.S. Though some quickly fold for lack of capital and know-how, many are doing remarkably well. Chicago's Budget Rent-A-Car, bossed by Jules W. Lederer, 45, husband of Lovelorn Columnist Ann Landers, has opened franchised branches in 50 cities, plans to open 150 more next year. New York's Kinney...
Woody falls in love with his secretary, an attractive intelligent English girl. If he divorces his wife, however, a deal vital to the firm's success will fall through because Woody's father-in-law is in a dominant position financially; the business must fold, and his father's (Howard Da Silva's) heart must break...
...Fold-In Shakespeare. Supported by a tiny income whose source is the Burroughs adding machine, which his grandfather invented (an irony important to beat hagiographers), the 48-year-old author lives in the "beat hotel," a fleabag shrine in a section of Paris where passers-by move out of the way for rats. There in a worn grey room the worn grey man has written three other novels. The Soft Machine, the immediate sequel to Naked Lunch, repeats the rant of its predecessor with far less coherence; the improvement may be explained by Burroughs' solemn assurance that much...
...autonomy, and for the lion's share of the vast concession fees of Ka tanga's Belgian and British-controlled copper and cobalt riches. As U.S. Under Secretary of State George McGhee conferred patiently in Elisabethville, hoping to convince Tshombe that Katanga must return to the Congo fold, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant published a U.N. report from Leopoldville which charged that Tshombe was beefing up his stout little army with additional white hirelings, had even added more than a dozen airplanes to his tiny air force...
Christ also said-in the same sentence, in fact: ". . . them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd...