Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...husband presided over a board meeting in Detroit, Anne McDonnell Ford, 44, ended her six weeks in Idaho with a 20-minute divorce court appearance that terminated her 23-year marriage to Henry Ford II on grounds of mental anguish. The settlement, according to friends, was a staggeringly generous $16 million plus, along with custody of their son Edsel, 14. Daughters Charlotte, 22, and Anne, 21, were not at issue, since they are not minors. With the marriage finally sundered, Ford was free to wed his friend of four years, Italian Divorcee Christina Austin, 34, who now lives in Manhattan...
...more and more U.S. companies. Businessmen, from the Medicis to the Morgans, have often been eager patrons of the arts. In recent years the big foundations-usually set up with fortunes earned in business-have been the most generous and experimental in supporting culture. But corporations are beginning to catch up on both counts. Last year U.S. business spent more than $25 million in support of art, literature and music, and this year it is expected to spend 10% more...
...eight-time world champion, Eugenio Monti. Then, zooming down Igls' hairy, ice-coated run at better than 60 m.p.h., the Britons suddenly lost control of their sled, narrowly missed shooting off the course. They still won-giving Britain its first Winter Olympics gold medal since 1952. The generous Monti finished third...
...mercy but short on reserves and actuarial experience, the growing business went from crisis to crisis. Then the firm hired a onetime schoolteacher named Asa T. Spaulding, a New York University graduate who had just become one of the nation's first Negro actuaries. He scaled down overly generous interest rates, introduced stiffer medical examinations and began to train Mutual's loosely assembled staff of agents. By 1943 the firm was enough in the black to make its first dividend payment-and has not missed one since. North Carolina-born Spaulding, now 61, became president...
While Republican leader Sen. Everett Dirksen (R-III.) is reportedly opposed, Republican opposition may not be unanimous. Conservatives, particularly Sens. Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.) and Peter Dominick (R-Colo.), put similar, though more generous, bills in the hopper last session. These men have claimed tax credit is a "means for encouraging more effort at the private level" and therefore more healthy than direct Federal...