Word: houre
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took charge of editorial production and a staff of 175 people. Gruff and authoritarian, he was also fair, compassionate, humorous and fiercely loyal to his staff. According to a coworker, "Even those who didn't like him liked him." Boyd paid ceaseless attention to every detail, worked 100-hour weeks and was never sick. If a cold threatened, his procedure was to stay up all night so that it could not catch him unawares...
...Georgia Governor Carl Sanders (who had lost to Carter) urged that Humphrey stay in the race, obviously wishing to deny Carter the nomination. Still, Humphrey could not decide. His wife asked him to remain home a little longer for a last exchange, and they sat together for half an hour. Says Muriel: "I could see that he was essentially negative about running, and I was a little more positive." He told her he would call from the office...
...less than an hour he phoned her and said he would not run. It was a decision, he stressed, that he had had to reach for himself. Even though it might mean the end of all his hopes, he would have his self-respect. And he would spare them both the familiar abuse-that he was Lyndon Johnson's puppet, that he was not tough enough, that people were tired of him-that would surely be heaped on him the minute he announced. As he would say later: "One thing I don't need at this stage...
Something about Actress Trish Van Devere is bringing out the animal in her husband George C. Scott. Occasionally boorish off-camera, Scott looks truly boarish after a daily three-hour makeup job for his co-starring role in the fairy tale Beauty and the Beast. The production, being filmed in England, will run as a 90-minute NBC special in the U.S. and as a feature movie in other countries. The pair hopes it will fare better than their 1974 joint effort, The Savage Is Loose, which the critics castigated. Purrs Trish: "We are trying to do Beauty...
...succeeded in maintaining or even increasing prices during the recession. Their total profits fell last year as sales dropped off, but their profit margin on each dollar of sales held up fairly well. Now, with sales rebounding, the margins translate into zooming total profits. In addition, output per man-hour in nonfarm industries is rising nearly as fast as labor costs. That may change as more workers are hired and wages rise, but for the moment it means fatter profits. Most important, consumers are now buying the autos, appliances, clothes and other products they passed by during the recession...