Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...divisional vice president outright if he wanted to act out a Hollywood version of the tycoon, but he would not. The unwritten law demands that such a grave personal decision be discussed up and down the committees. A divisional vice president with the prestige of Buick's Ivan Wiles spends a huge operating budget as he sees fit, and goes to the top only when he thinks his actions might affect the other divisions, or when he wants new capital...
...barn one early evening last week, the Brown Swiss cow was calving for the first time. A small knot of anxious men stood near by. Farm Manager Ivan Feaster, becoming alarmed at the slow process of birth, raced off to call a veterinarian. He was stopped in his tracks by a shout from the barn: "It's all right, Ivan," yelled Farmer Dwight Eisenhower, "don't bother to call." In the stall, the mother cow licked the quivering body of her offspring, a fine bull calf, while the President of the U.S. looked on in beaming approval...
Then, in Burma, as newsmen pressed close for photographs and interviews with Khrushchev, he got really mad. Who was the Third Man? He was General Ivan Alexandrovich Serov, Cabinet-ranking boss of Soviet secret police...
MAMMALS OF THE WORLD, by Francois Bourliere (223 pp.; Knopf; $12.50), and LIVING MAMMALS OF THE WORLD, by Ivan T. Sanderson (303 pp.; Hanover House; $9.95), are excellent introductions to the world's animal life, the first perhaps more scholarly, the second more readable and rich in color photographs...
Inside the restaurant Mrs. Patricia Chaprales, wife of the owner, was sitting at the cashier's desk with her back to the window. The flying glass did not injure her, but the buckling wall behind her did slightly. Ivan A. Hirsch 3L and Nancy Howes 3L, sitting at a table with their backs also to the window, were both shaken up, but escaped any injury...