Word: kitchener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unacceptable to most national party leaders. Casting desperately around for someone else, they were drawn to the able, attractive Governor of Illinois. Stevenson was genuinely reluctant; the night before the national convention in Chicago, he sat up until 2 a.m. in Cook County Boss Jake Arvey's kitchen, suggesting alternative names and insisting that he wanted only to run for re-election as Governor...
...until they have spent an evening or part of it at Menotti's 17th century palazzo. Marvels Menotti: "I am regularly faced by an avalanche of princes, princesses, dukes and duchesses, who swarm over my house in their wonderful clothes, eating, drinking and cooking spaghetti in my kitchen. Spoleto was conceived as a small ivory turret, but has turned into a Tower of Babel...
...energy this represents-at the very moment when more men and women are needed more urgently than ever to do creative brainwork. The computer culture that can perform the undreamed-of in milliseconds is in its domestic style drifting back to the frontier, with people eating in the kitchen (a kitchen often blended into the living room) and organizing the family to do the domestic chores. Taking note of this, Russell Lynes observed: "We have moved a long way mechanically; we are almost where we started humanly...
...Richard, 52, is chairman of Treadway Inns, but his three sons have sold all but 25% of the corporation's 4,000 shares of stock to employees. Treadway's president and chief executive is J. Frank Birdsall Jr., 51, a Cornell hotel school graduate and experienced kitchen man who first worked for Treadway during college vacations. To its charm and cuisine, Treadway has lately added a computer that scans daily innkeeper reports and immediately spots overbudget spending or unnecessary additions to the 2,500-man staff. Rather than diminishing Treadway's image of individuality, the computer...
...jewelry. In fact, though Carbide is primarily a supplier to other industries, it now counts about 10% of its sales in direct consumer products. Its longtime line of Eveready batteries includes 450 shapes and sizes, and its Prestone trademark is on 30 automobile products. It has introduced Glad plastic kitchen wrap, sandwich bags, and drinking straws, intends to expand this line. "Union Carbide never really decided to go into the consumer market," says President Mason, "but we have the technology for the consumer, so we're using...