Word: hartfords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the boy from Brooklyn launched his first Korvette in 1948, his company has moved westward to the Mississippi, expanding to 42 stores and 63 supermarkets from Hartford to St. Louis. All this requires a lot of administration, and Ferkauf is much too restless to sit around and tend to the details of the nation's fastest-growing retail chain. Result: though Korvette's sales since 1962 have more than doubled to $720 million, its profits in this year's first fiscal half (ending in January) have dropped 14%, to $7.9 million, and its stock is down...
Divorced. Edward Durell Stone, 64, architect of romantically grilled and colonnaded buildings (U.S. embassy in New Delhi, Huntington Hartford's Gallery of Modern Art in Manhattan): by Maria Torch Stone, 37, his flashy second wife; on grounds of incompatibility, after eleven years of marriage, two children, and 18 months of public spatting; in Juárez, Mexico...
...hands of educated, courteous drivers on roads not cluttered with "booby traps," governed by horse-and-buggy regulations or filled with drivers in worn-out cars who consider driving a right rather than a privilege. The good Senator Ribicoff [March 25] should try a few laps in the Hartford cross-town competition some cold, rainy night-Sebring is safer...
CHARLES B. CORT West Hartford, Conn...
When it comes to outright draft dodging, as opposed to demonstrations, the authorities have little patience. In Hartford, Conn., Bookseller David Mitchell, 23, who had refused to report for induction and declared the U.S. "morally bankrupt and criminally liable" in Viet Nam, was given the maximum prison sentence of five years for draft evasion. In a New York City crackdown, 38 men, including several fathers and their draft-age sons, were indicted for participating in one of the biggest draft-dodging schemes ever. They had allegedly bought stolen Defense Department documents for as much as $5,000 each, falsified them...