Word: glenn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...drink, smoke or play around. I'm just about perfect. -Glenn W. Turner, in a speech to prospective customers...
Flamboyant and tireless, Glenn W. Turner is to salesmanship what Billy Sunday was to revivalism. Now 37, he has built a tiny door-to-door cosmetics firm into a multimillion-dollar empire by stirring life's losers with a bewitching fast-buck gospel. "All we're doing is showing people how they can make something of themselves," says Turner, a sharecropper's son who favors neon-bright suits, ivory-colored boots made of skin from unborn calves, and a rhinestone American-flag lapel pin the size of a calling card. Turner's activities have also stirred...
Paying off a World Series bet, Maryland Republican Senators Charles Mathias and J. Glenn Beall Jr.-Baltimore Oriole fans to the end-dutifully led two elephants around to the front of the Capitol. Riding the pachyderms and still gloating over the triumph of the Pittsburgh Pirates were Pennsylvania Republican Senators Hugh Scott and Richard Schweiker. Later, Senator Scott met the visiting King and Queen of Sikkim and told them about his lofty ride. "Didn't you use a ladder to mount?" asked the Queen, onetime Manhattan Debutante Hope Cooke. "In Sikkim, we always use a ladder." Said Scott...
...nearly $1,000,000 over the same period in 1970. But Boeing's new outlook may well provide a striking glimpse into the future. As the troubled aerospace giants find themselves forced to diversify, some of them could move into radically new areas. Says Boeing's Glenn L. Keister, head of aero space research and development: "We are going to respond to social needs. If we do not, we will be a limited company...
...close cooperation with local police forces has become a subject of controversy throughout the Deep South. Terrill Glenn, a former U.S. attorney in South Carolina, told the conference that the FBI had not conducted any meaningful investigation of the shootings of four black students at Orangeburg, S.C. because the agents were close friends with the Highway Patrolmen who had done the shooting. Andrew Young, a veteran SCLC organizer, told the conference that civil rights groups had met with an outstanding lack of success in seeking FBI investigation of harassment beatings and shootings of civil rights workers in the deep South...