Word: jaguars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Shareholders. Many companies, of course, hold annual meetings-but with a difference. French companies go out of their way to keep shareholders away, often hold meetings in awkward places or pick a time when nobody wants to come, such as the day before Bastille Day. Britain's carmaking Jaguar recently whizzed through an annual meeting in just nine minutes. Docile shareholders often do not bother to attend meetings, and proxy fights are rare indeed...
That was impolite, to say the least. Britain's Jaguar was represented by four of its new droop-snoot E-type cars; Germany's Porsche entered five cars-and then there were the U.S. challengers. After years of listening to those cracks about "Detroit Iron," both Chevrolet and Ford were on hand-and obviously yearning for a U.S. victory...
...time of need, Roosevelt last week finally got his reward: Kennedy nominated him to become Under Secretary of Commerce. After confirmation by the Senate (where an un-vengeful Humphrey is now Democratic whip), Roosevelt, 48, a former Congressman from New York (1949-54) who is presently a Fiat and Jaguar dealer in Washington, will take the $21,000-a-year post being vacated by Edward Gudeman, who is returning to private business...
...Jaguar, tooled off to the Dorchester Hotel, where she and Burton have booked separate suites. Next week they begin a new film, The VIPs, in which they play a fogbound man and wife...
...lovely girl who has always attracted numerous boys, but her wardrobe would not fill a hatbox. She wears almost no jewelry, but she has one material bauble. When a Jaguar auto salesman looked down his nose at the scruffily dressed customer as she peered at a bucket-seat XKE sports model, she sat down, wrote a giant check, and bought it on the spot. Wildly, she dashes across the desert in her Jaguar, as unsecured as a grain of flying sand. "I have no real roots," she says. "Sometimes, when I walk through a suburb with all its tidy houses...