Word: herman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...executives, became board chairman in 1955. Since the company prefers to have a Ford in the presidency for the prestige of the name, Henry Ford will probably keep the presidency, not the chairmanship. Likely prospect as new chairman: austere, brainy Ford Vice President Robert Strange McNamara, 44. ¶Edward Herman Little, 79, retired as chief executive officer of Colgate-Palmolive Co., a post he has held since 1938. He will remain chairman of the board. Succeeding Little as chief executive is George Henry Lesch, 50, who was elected Colgate president last April. Little joined Colgate 58 years...
Included among other events that I was unable to attend were: Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Robert Lowell, winner of the 1960 Festival Poetry Prize, reading from his own works; an evening of international folk dances and folk music; two evenings of jazz, with Woody Herman an other soloists; and several lectures on the art exhibits...
...properly masculine and looks surprisingly young; but her voice-ay, there's the rub. Her delivery is jarring, mechanical, and unintelligent; both she and the director fall even to perceive that the rhythm of "your own most pregnant and voch safed ear" demands that the penultimate word be trisyliabic. Herman Chessid's incidental music is inferior, though his songs are good ("O Mistress Mine" and "Come Away, Death" are fetchingly sung by a boy soprano, David Grees...
...Against the drama of Kennedy's no-quarter battle, the maneuverings of the other Democratic candidates paled. To the surprise of no one, Lyndon Johnson got a landslide vote of confidence from the Texas delegation-and the withdrawal of Herman Talmadge as the white hope of the Dixiecrats solidified the Solid South behind Johnson. Stu Symington's waning hopes still centered on a miracle in Los Angeles. Such a miracle could happen, if resentment over Kennedy's tough tactics exploded. But the risk was small...
Georgia (33): A Dixiecrat movement to back Favorite Son Herman Talmadge is under way, but the unit rule should carry the state for Johnson...