Word: ills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, an incident on the way to New Haven last Friday soured quite a few freshman football players on one aspect of the varsity coaching staff, and Yovicsin can ill afford to drive away upcoming players at this stage. Farneti, hopefully, can re-establish the type of cohesive attitude that was the major factor in the success of the 1968 squad...
...North Whitehead, a former Harvard professor who pioneered in the study of human relations in industry, died Saturday in Cambridge at the age of 77. He had been ill with pneumonia...
...among many moderates and on the left by his new belligerence, he also risks stirring up the hard-line right to renewed cries of "Not peace-victory!" He may exacerbate the tensions of a nation distraught and confused as it has not been since the Depression. That danger augurs ill for both his presidency and the American people, and could in the end make a compromise settlement in Viet Nam more difficult for Americans to understand and accept...
...glibness and superiority, of unwelcome change, of dissent and division. Still, some of Agnew's criticisms were entirely sensible. He asked a great many questions that have troubled others about the nature and source of TV's power, its influence on America, its effects for good or ill. The speech was more professional and better drafted than almost any he has delivered -thanks to fitting in the White House speech shop. There were, for example, no such gems as "an effete corps of impudent snobs." If the prose was somewhat more finished than in some other recent Agnew...
Died. Robert E. Wood, 90, soldier turned merchant king, who built Sears, Roebuck and Co. into the world's largest merchandising concern; in Lake Forest, Ill. A West Pointer (1900) who rose to brigadier general, Wood had one motto: "Let's charge!" And charge he did soon after he joined Sears as a vice president in 1924. Within four years he was president, and what was previously a rural mail-order house swiftly expanded into retail stores, insurance and financing. One of Wood's wisest moves was pioneering an employee profit-sharing plan that now owns...