Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ford Theater (Thurs. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Charles Coburn in The World's My Oyster...
...found work in a factory, painted when he could. Last year Sather had a show in Winnipeg which netted $800. With that, he bundled his family into a 1938 Ford station wagon and rattled off to Mexico. They lived in a shack in the jungle near Acapulco, and Sather came down with malaria. "But I have an attack only once a month," he says. "I'm so healthy, I'm a dynamo. I need only four hours' sleep a night." On their way back to Canada, the Sathers visited U.S. museums by day, camped in the fields...
...Ph.D. in Greek, Dunkel has long been worried about the "enormous gap in communication" between the nation's high-school teachers and its college professors. ("Communication between the two groups is not only bad, it is practically nonexistent.") Last summer, with a $30,000 grant from the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education, Dunkel started some college-level courses for high-school pupils, invited a number of high-school teachers to sit in as observers. In this way, says he, "you not only get the two groups of teachers together to discuss their problems...
SCHULTE STORES may follow the cigar-store Indian into oblivion. General Stores Corp. will sell off its 145 D.A. Schulte cigar stores around the U.S., hopes to replace them with six super-drugstore chains in addition to the two (Chicago's Ford Hopkins and Stineway) that it now owns...
...Ford Trucks & Flour. A bulking bear of a man, 66-year-old "Dutti" Duttweiler entered the business world 50 years ago as an apprentice in the Zurich wholesale grocery firm of Pfister and Sigg. Thirteen years later the company became Pfister & Duttweiler. But Dutti's main career of cutting prices-and conventional corners -began in 1925. Just back from several years as a coffee-and sugar-plantation owner in Brazil, Duttweiler was shocked to discover that a planter netted less for his efforts in raising coffee than the grocer who merely handed it over the counter. To remedy that...