Word: gordon
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Founded by Chicago Entrepreneur Nate Sherman, Midas long thrived as the number of its franchised dealers increased steadily over the years. But after Nate's son Gordon took over in 1967, a father-son conflict arose. Gordon was a University of Chicago intellectual and partial to Elizabethan English and the raising of orchids and hummingbirds. He favored a relaxed style of management that did not sit well with dad. Several dealers quit, and the internal strife began to show up in leaner profits. After a proxy fight, Sherman Sr. in 1972 sold his controlling interest to IC Industries. When...
...only other Watergate veteran still behind bars is G. Gordon Liddy, who led the break-in with Hunt and was jailed in 1973. Still refusing to talk about the burglary, he faces four more years at the federal prison in Danbury, Conn., before he can hope for parole...
...Gordon said the purpose of the conference is to "work with other people and learn first hand about diplomacy and foreign relations...
...purpose of the conference is to "stimulate the United Nations and give students the environment in which they can learn," Glead S. Gordon '79, secretary general, said yesterday...
...innovation in the annual event, Gordon said, was the elimination of prepared resolutions in favor of more flexibile debate and parliamentary maneuverings...