Word: getterism
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...WASN'T always this way. Doug came to Harvard like most other people-the pride of his large public high school, semi-athletic, a go-getter, eager fall. It has a shot-by-shot analysis of Z as its feature story, and Doug takes a look at it nearly every...
Coates and Thomas Mahoney, a humanities professor at M. I. T., each received three of the five votes required for election on the first two ballots last Monday. Incumbent mayor Walter Sullivan, the top vote-getter in last November's City Council election, received two votes on each ballot...
Steve Krause, the Crimson's top point-getter last winter, lapped both of Springfield's men twice on his way to an easy triumph in the 1000-free, and sophomore Andy Huff was second...
...roughhewn go-getter of 49, Hickel was the 1938 Golden Gloves welter weight champion of Kansas and never went to college. During his 29 years in Alaska, where he arrived with 370, Hickel amassed a fortune of more than $14 million in hotels, land and natural-gas holdings. After he became Governor in 1967, his friendliness to oil companies gave him a reputation for putting industrial development before everything else - a reputation that was enhanced when he freely scorned "conservation for conservation's sake." At the Senate hearings preceding his confirmation, Hickel even seemed deaf to the fact that...
They are neither. As a result, the book is engorged with minutiae that might better have been left in the filing cabinet. Much of it is Dun & Bradstreet; the Bouviers' commonest denominator seems to have been a preoccupation with getting and spending. Getter No. 1 was Michel, a cabinetmaker from the Rhone Valley, who fled France after Waterloo to settle in Philadelphia and accumulate a tidy fortune in real estate. Getter No. 2 was one of his sons, Michel Charles. With his brother John, he bought seats on the New York Stock Exchange right after its reorganization...