Word: foundering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...real cause for money worries. There will continue to be, in Joe Kennedy's terse public accounting, "enough." But enough for what? Surely enough to support generations of Kennedys in comfort. But when it comes to maintaining their political ascendancy and using money as effectively as the founder, the future is shadowed by doubt...
...mother was related to the Ford clan and sister to J. L. Hudson, founder of Detroit's biggest department store. His mother helped to found Detroit's first art museum, and she took him East with her when she went to buy Early American furniture. Then Robert Tannahill became an art patron and collector himself. Every year he traveled abroad to the art centers of Europe. At home he helped struggling young artists educate themselves and find a market for their work. Under no pressure to work, under no need to meet a payroll, he gave where...
...year and a half as chief executive of the financially troubled airline, and announced that he planned to retire next year. Surface appearances to the contrary, the switch was something less than a managerial upheaval. Halaby, now 54, has been in line to take over ever since Pan Am Founder Juan Trippe lured him away from Washington four years...
...served as a Navy pilot in World War II, flying the first U.S. jet cross-country in 1944. After the war, he hopped from job to job with indifferent success. At Pan Am, however, his energy and judgment have earned him the respect of associates and the confidence of Founder Trippe...
...adulatory biographer like Theodore Besterman is just the further aggravation that a resenter of Voltaire's cocksure reformism does not need. Mercilessly detailed, Besterman's book is a scholarly but unabashed case of hero-worship by the English founder and director of the Institut et Musée Voltaire in Geneva and editor of the 107 volumes of Voltaire's Correspondence. Besterman's zeal can nearly do the impossible: make his scintillating subject dull. Yet Voltaire survives even his sedulous admiration-perhaps because no age can help finding a man fascinating who himself was so fascinated...