Word: kist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...made his mark after Chairman Heinz, aware that the company had become too stolid domestically, made him a troubleshooter to improve Heinz's U.S. business. Gookin did it partly by revising Heinz's somewhat outdated sales techniques, partly by proposing the acquisition of such companies as Star Kist Tuna and Ore-Ida, a processor of frozen foods that takes its name from the fact that its first processing plants were in Idaho...
...local paper in an important provincial Hungarian city, Pecs, showed that there was considerable political apathy among the students in Pecs University. Attitudes of mistrust, cynicism, and even hostility to politics were found. Similar apolitical attitudes appeared in one of the surveys conducted by the Hungarian youth organization (KIST). In responding to the question of how they used their free time, students indicated that they preferred literature and the arts, young workers preferred television, sports, and dancing, and peasant youth occupied themselves with cards, bowling, and sessions at the village inn. There was no significant spontaneous devotion of free time...
...been around 1,966 years, or something like that."* In the face of the threat, fish producers, canners and distributors have begun to fight back. Except for such giants as the Ralston Purina Co. (Chicken of the Sea and White Star canned tuna) and HJ. Heinz Co. (Star Kist), the industry has been listless in promoting fish, slow in keeping up with innovations in packaging and convenience foods. Warns New York Fishery Council Director John Von Glahn: "The industry will do a better job of marketing and put a better product in the hands of consumers...