Word: founder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...solve the crisis-and babbles into Babel. A Committee to Encourage Optimism is formed, complete with clowns, dwarfs and dancing girls whooping it up convention style. Finally, the children come back for a brief visit and turn away from it all in lofty disdain, leaving their parents to founder in the generation gap forever...
...outbreak and a stiff curfew. The steamy city on the Mississippi still seethes in the residue of April's unlearned lessons, and the aloof attitude of Mayor Henry Loeb and other officials hardly helps. This week the Southern Christian Leadership Conference convenes defiantly in the city where its founder was murdered. The S.C.L.C. national convention could bring Memphis to flash point...
Constructivism began in Russia as a spidery brand of pure and formal abstraction. Some proclaim Naum Gabo as its founder; some argue that his brother, Antoine Pevsner, has an equal claim; and some urge the case of Painter Kasimir Malevich. Now Stockholm's Modern Museum has mounted an exhibit of paintings, photographs and models designed to show that Vladimir Tallin (1885-1953) was the most constructive constructivist...
...merger, which must be approved by its stockholders, MCA will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Westinghouse. For MCA, one of the principal attractions of the $385 million stock-swap deal is Westinghouse's higher dividend. And nobody stands to benefit more than MCA's founder and chief stockholder, Chairman Jules Caesar Stein, 72, whose 27% stake in the company has a current market value of almost $90 million. By converting his MCA holdings to Westinghouse stock, Stein's annual dividend return would rise from $1,200,000 a year...
...effects. Gallaher's board of directors stiff-upper-lipped it as "quite inadequate." And a major Gallaher shareholder that up to now had been satisfied with the status quo was shaken into action. American Tobacco has been a part of the market ever since 1901 when Founder James B. ("Buck") Duke stomped into London and tried to move into the industry. To keep him out, 13 British companies amalgamated into Imperial Tobacco, which is now Britain's largest tobacco company. Imperial later bought a substantial share of Gallaher. American nevertheless ended up with intercontinental marketing agreements and eventually...