Word: grantham
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...Companies are trying to reach a market that is middle of the road," says Vada Grantham, a test marketer...
Born in 1925, Margaret Hilda Roberts was an enormously industrious girl. The daughter of a Grantham shopkeeper, she studied on scholarship, worked her way to Oxford and took two degrees, in chemistry and law. Her fascination with politics led her into Parliament at age 34, when she argued her way into one of the best Tory seats in the country, Finchley in north London. Her quick mind (and faster mouth) led her up through the Tory ranks, and by age 44 she got settled into the "statutory woman's" place in the Cabinet as Education Minister, and that looked like...
Checking return addresses on old letters, Lachenmeyer traveled first to Grantham, New Hampshire, where Charles rented a room in 1983 with the aid of pension and disability money. In Grantham and other cities, Lachenmeyer learned that his father lived alone, churning out pamphlets about government thought control. Before becoming ill, he had published two sociology books. Now he added titles like Technological Slavery to his curriculum vitae. "My father never recognized that he was mentally ill," Lachenmeyer says. "He spent the lion's share of each day looking for teaching work...
Charles was sent to psychiatric hospitals several times in the '80s, first in 1984 after breaking the nose of an elderly Grantham woman he considered a "government agent." But after each hospitalization he refused help and drifted away, spiraling downward. Retracing his father's footsteps, Lachenmeyer discovered that doctors and caseworkers had tried hard to help. "I was startled at how deeply involved they were with my father," he says. The elderly woman Charles had attacked turned out to be a retired psychiatric nurse who agreed to drive more than an hour to meet Lachenmeyer's film crew...
...Power (HarperCollins; 656 pages; $30), the second volume of her autobiography, makes clear, Thatcher was probably too simple and direct for the Tories, with their heavy baggage of class and compromise. She traveled light, proud of her roots as a grocer's daughter from the small town of Grantham but never tethered by working-class resentments or delusions of inferiority. Her parents taught her the verities they believed in: Methodism, hard work, thrift and the importance of the individual. She has never wavered from them, and they run through the book...