Word: founder
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...Mind. Stone is the founder, president and chairman of Combined Insurance Co. of America, which has assets of $142 million, and he estimates his personal wealth at more than $400 million. A high school dropout, he says that he owes everything to a "Positive Mental Attitude"-which he usually abbreviates as P.M.A. At Combined Insurance, P.M.A. is the company way. The chairman's sayings are reverently quoted in company literature and at conferences. Some favorites: "Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve," and "With every disadvantage there's an equivalent advantage." P.M.A...
...founder and moving spirit is Dennis Warren, 21, a prelaw student at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif. The very antithesis of the stereotype student radical, Warren wears his hair closely cropped, dresses in conservative pinstripe suits and black shoes. As a sophomore, he won two gold medals at the Pi Kappa Delta national debating tournament...
...wrote Tomas G. Masaryk, founder and first President of the Czechoslovak Republic, who, as a young man, published a scholarly book on suicide. Last week his words seemed tragically prophetic. Hitherto Czechoslovakia's resistance to last summer's Soviet invasion had ranged from almost comic escapades in sabotage, to reasoned defense of its reform measures in the press, to mass demonstrations of anger and resentment. Almost never was there desperation to be seen, not even among the most militant fatigue-jacketed students of Prague's Charles University...
What most outraged many members was the unexpected election as second vice-president of M.I.T.'s Louis Kampf, a founder of the New University Conference, which seeks to involve scholars in political issues. The Modern Language leadership had been so confident that the officially nominated candidate, Santa Barbara's Stuart Atkins, would win that an issue of its journal announcing his election had already been sent to press. Now, according to tradition, Kampf will become president...
...sinners as Confederate Spy Rose O'Neal Greenhow (whose charms earned her a peek at the blueprints of various forts around Washington) and "Old Bill" Miner, who held up his first stagecoach in 1866 and his last train in 1911. He also manages a rough-edged portrait of Founder Allan Pinkerton, No. 1 bloodhound of heaven...