Word: hunts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...metals firm; he rose to become personnel manager for the same firm at $100 a week. "I got to know the executives," Stein says, "and they were always talking about the stock market. I didn't know what it meant, really, but I became interested." He began to hunt for a job on Wall Street, but without success. "They wanted salesmen, and they said I wasn't a salesman." Through a friend he was finally hired as a trainee at Bache & Co., where he soon noticed that letters requesting sales brochures were piling up unanswered while salesmen concentrated on person...
...rather see a happy medium. I'd like to see some woods and some animals around, and a place where a guy can get out once in a while, hunt and fish without tanglin' lines with fifteen other people down the line. But the oil is bound to bring in people, and it's bound to lose that old Alaska. A lot of places you don't even see it any more. You see locks on cabin doors. Heck, the only cabin I got with a lock on it is the post office...
Actor-turned-Politician George Murphy, 67, had an unorthodox opponent: Norton Simon, a 63-year-old multimillionaire (Hunt Foods, Canada Dry, McCall Corp.). He jumped in hours before the filing deadline after failing to persuade HEW Secretary Robert Finch to take Murphy on. A pensive and quixotic man, Simon came across poorly in public but spent more than $1.5 million of his own on a well-executed TV, radio and newspaper advertising campaign. He took 33% of the vote in losing. "The reason I went in was not impulsive," Simon told TIME afterward. "It was frustration with...
...Fish, Hunt, And Enjoy Life
...Most members of the Class of '20 are retired and spend some time working on a few civic or Harvard committees. For the most part, however, their lives are one long vacation. Herman Wiener said, "I just fish, hunt, and enjoy life and I plan to continue doing so as long as I live...