Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stranger to Eisenhower Washington, Johnson is an old soapsuds acquaintance of his new boss, met Procter & Gamble's McElroy when McElroy approached G.E. to learn about possible markets for his new detergent products. Like McElroy, Johnson has a special flair for organization. He was an architect of the 1951 decentralization plan under which G.E.'s 280,000 employees and 95 separate divisions were spread under 49 managers. He also planned the corporation's biggest venture into consolidation, a 942-acre appliance-making center at Louisville...
Love & Marriage. Slim, doe-eyed Lydia was a Filipina of 16 when she met Airman Dean at a dance in Luzon in 1952. They dated for 21 months ("We were talking of love," explained Lydia in her thin, childish voice), then got married. Dean brought his wife to the U.S. in 1954, and late that year, she had a baby girl. In 1956 Dean was transferred to a base in England, but before embarking, he found a four-room apartment for her in Pleasantville (pop. 704), near Oil City and near the small home of his parents in Shamburg. Lydia...
...girl, whose name was withheld, told the court that she first met Keyser in a dairy where she had gone to buy milk. He nodded to her, the girl said, and asked where she lived. The next day they met again at the dairy and, said the girl, Keyser asked to visit her. The girl said that she refused that request and a second one later, but that on Jan. 29 she agreed. "He said he would come about 9 p.m. and would give me ?I [$2.80]," the girl testified. The girl went to the police. When Keyser arrived...
...Philadelphia, not far from the scene of their first battle for the heavyweight boxing crown in 1926, Manassa Mauler Jack Dempsey, 62, and Gentleman Gene Tunney, 60, met again, looking remarkably well-preserved-and strikingly alike. They received plaques from the Brith Sholom lodge for "their notable achievements and outstanding contributions in the sports world and for devoted service to American youth." Pingponging compliments with the man who beat him twice in the ring, well-heeled Manhattan Restaurateur Dempsey turned to Millionaire...
...which Wolsey was a master. A high point of his career came when he stage-managed the futile but beautiful pageant known to history as the Field of Cloth of Gold: in a pleasant French valley, England's King Harry and France's young King Francis I met to pledge a treaty of friendship. It was, says Author Ferguson, "the last great canvas of the Middle Ages ... it marked the end of the age of chivalry and somehow prophetically dramatized the end of the age of churchmen...