Word: gaylord
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DRAGON OF AN ORDINARY FAMILY, by Margaret Mahy, illustrated by Helen Oxenbury (Watts; $4.95). "Dragon, Housetrained, Unusual Pet, Very Cheap, 50?," or so the sign said when Mr. Belsaki, the father of the ordinary family, went out to purchase an ordinary pet for son Gaylord. With considerable help from attractively grotesque illustrations, both the dragon and Belsaki's life soon expand on an extraordinary scale...
...field of ecology, who deserves a dunce cap this week? According to Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson, the prize goes to the International Boundary Commission, which is now in the process of defoliating a 20-ft.-wide strip between the U.S. and Canada. The main purpose, says the commission, is to help establish jurisdiction in border disputes and plane crashes. Excluding water, the strip will extend over 2,964 miles of land...
Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson is convinced that the hottest growth stock in U.S. protest is conservation. In fact, Nelson himself is toiling to make the nation's campuses erupt next spring-in a giant, peaceful teach-in about environmental evils. As he has been telling audiences across the country for the past month: "The new generation is not satisfied with coming out on the losing end of man's drive for progress and profit...
...legislative aide to Senator Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.) joined the attack on Ebert's role at Squibb. He said last night that "there is absolutely no question" that Ebert is involved in a case of conflicting interests...
...prime rate on loans to businesses by major banks remains at a record 8½%, but now bankers are talking of possible future cuts rather than further increases in the rate from which all other interest rates are calibrated. Gaylord Freeman, chairman of Chicago's First National Bank, goes so far as to predict that the prime rate may drop to 7½% or even 7% by year-end. Most bankers and economists are more cautious. They warn that interest rates could yet bounce up again. So far, though, demand has been dropping more than it usually does...