Word: growingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Harry H. S. Phillips Jr., 67, first publisher of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, founded by Time Inc. in 1954, who saw the magazine off to a swift start (250,000 subscriptions even before the name was announced) and helped it grow toward vast success (present circulation: 1,310,950) before he moved on to a corporate staff position in 1959; after a long illness; in Mount Kisco...
Wartime Democracy. His dedication to Ibo nationhood dates from the same day as his now luxuriant beard, which he let grow during the 1966 fall massacres "as a sign of mourning." He sleeps from dawn to midmorning, lives and works in his tightly guarded Umuahia villa. He evacuated his wife Njide-ka and two small children after a bomb was dropped near his home. Slouched at his desk, pacing the grounds impatiently in darkness, chain-smoking State Express filter cigarettes, he is a lonely figure in his besieged land. Ojukwu often is pictured in Nigerian propaganda as a power...
...eternal, brooding mountains of New Mexico, things take a long time to grow and even longer to change...
...with the Corvair, Ford with the Falcon, and Chrysler with the Valiant. So successful were these com pacts that by 1962 the foreign share of the market had dropped to under 5%. Figuring that the battle was over, the Big Three made the mistake of allowing their compacts to grow in both size and price. The result has been a new upsurge in the popularity of imports, which grabbed 9.4% of U.S. sales in 1967 and are back over the 10% mark this year...
...spoiled in the field, and many were being plowed under. The company estimated that the ruin could reach 80% within the next two weeks. Campbell's 250 contract farmers in southern New Jersey, a group of whom has sued two unions for damage because of the strike, grow nearly 40% of the area's 21,000-acre crop. In California, where rotting tomatoes could result in a loss of well over $4,000,000 if the strike persists, farmers called on President Johnson to invoke the Taft-Hartley law to stop the shutdown. The biggest losers...