Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Things can also go wrong, of course. Brunswick and AMF, for example, profited from the bowling boom in the '50s only to suffer later from competition from other pastimes. Still, dividends from the fun-and-games business do not always come in cash. "This is toy time," says Herbert J. Siegel, president of Chris-Craft. "If a guy can justify an acquisition by getting into the 'leisure time' market, he can have a good time." As Siegel himself undoubtedly does. He was chairman of Baldwin-Montrose Chemical Co. until last January, when, in a prelude...
...Soviet tanks. Never in the 100-year history of the international Communist movement had a single act so stunned, dismayed and divided the followers of Marx and Lenin. "Communism as an instrument of Soviet foreign policy is dead," said a former European Ambassador to Moscow. New Left Phi losopher Herbert Marcuse spoke for many sympathizers of Leninism when he called the Russian invasion "the most tragic event of the postwar...
Overwhelmed. The shifting group of conferees contained its own roster of notables: Thomas Dewey, Herbert Brownell, Billy Graham, Everett Dirksen, Gerald Ford, Barry Goldwater, Karl Mundt, Party Chairman Ray Bliss. Finally, after a brief break for a nap and a breakfast of cold cereal, Nixon convened still another meeting. By this time, the possibilities had been reduced to five: Senator Charles Percy; Lieutenant Governor Robert Finch of California, a longtime Nixon friend and associate; Congressman Rogers Morton of Maryland; Governor John Volpe of Massachusetts ("It might be nice," Nixon observed, "to have an Italian Catholic on the ticket...
...remnants of the Soviets' Cosmos 61 shot whirled out of space, NORAD's cameras, radar network and computer banks watched the descending debris until it was finally incinerated in the atmosphere. Other eyes also followed its fiery fall. Using NORAD data dubbed TIP (for Target Impact Point), Herbert E. Roth, a Denver-based jet-training planner for United Air Lines, operates a unique one-man satellite-early-warning system. It alerts commercial airline pilots to the possibility of space debris hurtling across their flight paths...
...Died. Herbert V. Kohler Sr., 76, crusty, conservative chairman of Kohler Co., the big plumbing-fixture firm that weathered the longest major strike in U.S. history; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Sheboygan, Wis. Struck by U.A.W. Local 833 in 1954 (among the issues: binding arbitration and a seniority rule in layoffs), Kohler held out for 81 years and kept his factory open with strikebreakers until the National Labor Relations Board finally forced him to the bargaining table...