Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Besides Desist, seven other men and women were arrested, including Chief Warrant Officer Herman Conder, 35, who was recently transferred from Orléans to Fort Benning, Ga.; Frankie Dio, 48, operator of a Miami Beach nightclub and younger brother of Brooklyn Mobster Johnny Dio; and Jean Nebbia, 52, and Jean-Claude Le Franc, 50, both leading figures in France's Mafia-backed dope-smuggling fraternity...
...still the Beatles on top, with their innumerable shaggy imitators from the Rolling Stones to Herman's Hermits to the Pharaohs. On the whole, the music was improved, the lyrics slightly more comprehensible. With Bob Dylan, rock also blossomed into a hybrid called folk-rock, but folk itself stayed with its perennial purist, Joan Baez (Farewell, Angelina) and the young American Indian Composer Buffy Sainte-Marie, who as a singer is a sort of Cree Callas, with more conviction than voice...
Koret set up Koratron as a licensing subsidiary of his Koret of California (annual sales: $25 million), but the child threatens to outgrow the parent. Koratron is run by Herman A. Greenberg, 57, a Harvard Law graduate and onetime New York Daily Mirror reporter who was hired because of the policing experience he gained as the wartime Office of Price Administration's enforcement director. The com pany collects 2% on all Koratron-treated material, then another 1% on every garment. It requires that the Koratron trademark be prominently shown on garments, backs up the tag with a snappy advertising...
...Honorable Ambition. Seventy-five years ago, the Rev. Russell Herman Conwell, a Philadelphia Baptist minister, went about the nation delivering a popular speech in which he praised not only the virtues of hard work but its rewards as well. "To secure wealth is an honorable ambition," he intoned, "and is one greattest of a person's usefulness to others. Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. I say, get rich, get rich!" Conwell repeated the speech before 6,000 audiences, earned $8,000,000 in fees...
...type of international crisis. By ignoring the particular questions of who is fighting whom, where, and why, Kahn removes himself from conflict as it usually exists. Kahn has noticed the problem of permanent force, but he refuses to look at it. The major weakness of On Escalation is that Herman Kahn, who has thought a great deal about war, does not understand violence...