Word: grocer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MacArthur's hauteur. Knebel-Bailey save the country from the conspirators, but they might as well have let the military take over, considering that the political savvy of their top politicos is somewhere below the ward heeler level. The Vice President, for instance, talks like a Greenwich Village grocer. "You want Ivy League manners," he tells the President, who rebukes him for his table manners; "you should have picked someone from Princeton to run with you-and lost, maybe...
...brought his weight down from 204 Ibs. to 99 Ibs. When he was on his feet again, he landed a job with a small contractor in Phoenix. One day, when he was working on the construction of a new grocery store, his paycheck bounced, and his employer disappeared. The grocer asked young Webb to take over the job, and the Del E. Webb Construction Co. was born. Its total assets: one cement mixer, ten wheelbarrows, 20 shovels and ten picks...
Miss Britain quit to ban the bomb and Miss U.S.A. wailed: "My mouth is actually sore from smiling." But the smiles were just beginning for the grocer's daughter from Argentina, who proved to have the most universal appeal at the contest in Miami: Norma Beatriz Nolan, Miss Universe of 1962, a rare blend of Irish, Italian and Spanish, statistically 24, 5 ft. 6 in., 120 lbs. and 35-25-36. The perquisites of office are $15,000 cash and a $7,000 mink coat; the duties include promotional tours of Portugal, Korea, Canada, Mexico and all points south...
...educated in a convent in Liverpool, where her father is a grocer. Before she was cast by Richardson, her entire experience consisted of the role of a frog in a school play, the rear end of a horse in pantomime, and walk-on bits as an apprentice with the Liverpool Repertory Theater, whose alumni include Sir Michael Redgrave and Rex Harrison...
Died. Assar Gabrielsson, 70, Swedish automaker who in 1927 founded the many-sided (buses, harvesters, jet engines) Volvo Group, an efficiency-minded grocer's son who steered Volvo (meaning "I roll" in Latin) into his nation's second biggest industry (estimated 1961 sales: $350 million) and, until his 1956 retirement from its active presidency, hung onto the boxy "bumblebee"-styled auto he believed sold for utility not beauty; of cancer; in Gothenburg, Sweden...