Word: maker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...policy-maker has yet formulated any coherent negotiating platform for the coming talks. This may be a bargaining tactic, aimed at leaving U.S. diplomats elbow room at the negotiating table. But it seems more likely that U.S. policy-makers have simply failed to confront the central issues. Poor planning took its propaganda toll last month as the Johnson Administration, failing to consider the implications of its rhetoric, promised to meet "anywhere, anyplace" with Communist negotiators, and then reneged on the promise...
...friend of Brush, Laporte became an American Home sales trainee in 1938, after graduating from Princeton and Harvard Business School. Under his leadership, American Home has stepped up diversification. In 1965, the company bought Chicago-based Ekco Products Inc. for $145 million, thus became the world's biggest maker of pots, pans and other kitchen utensils. Then it outmaneuvered Consolidated Foods in a race to acquire candymaking E. J. Brach & Co. It was a sweet victory: Brach's sales jumped 14% last year to $10 million...
Although the reaction to his article was over-whelmingly congratulatory (John Kenneth Gal-braith, in a letter to the Atlantic, said it was the finest political article he had read in many years), Thomson said he had received one letter from a former top-ranking Washington policy-maker, criticizing him for breaking the faith and trust of internal governmental activity...
...Control Data (up 89%) led computer companies, while Honeywell was up 48%, and Burroughs up 21%. Office-equipment maker Dictaphone...
Spanish Director Luis Bufiuel is 68, deaf and an acknowledged alcoholic; he has claimed that this-his 27th picture-will be his last. True or not, Belle de Jour is a fitting capstone to the curious career of an unpopular but near-legendary film maker whose favorite themes have been anticlericalism, madness, fetishist fantasies and the wilder frontiers of sex. The Belle of this story is the masochistic wife of a successful young Parisian doctor who finds relief from her marital frigidity by working part-time in a whorehouse-not for conventional kicks but for the delicious indignities involved. Since...