Word: mindedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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A witty, independent-minded officer with an acerbic outlook on the worst of the military's staff-stuffy ways, Posvar was born in Topeka, and raised in Cleveland, where he topped his high school class. At West Point, he racked up the best academic record since Douglas MacArthur'...
A few families have found it hard to adapt to the faster pace and higher rents in Stamford; some of their neighbors have been amused and confused by their slow Southern drawls. On the grounds that Stamford seems to have quite enough churches as it is, clergymen of other faiths...
Following her success abroad, Mary Garden returned to the U.S. in 1907, and eventually implanted herself as the prima donna of the Chicago Grand Opera Co. Her reign was absolute, and in 1921, when she was appointed director of the company, the local newspapers happily crowned her "Mary the First...
Rich (assets: $1.5 billion), acquisition-minded BAT is no stranger at the dressing table, having acquired 65% control of another cosmetics company, Lenthéric Ltd., in 1965. Two weeks ago BAT made a generous $67 million cash offer to take over Yardley and promised to expand the company "on...
Courtial takes on Ferdinand as a "secretary" in a business that becomes the mecca for every meccano-minded nut in France. It is the world of popular mechanics fictionalized. Courtial himself is an idealist and charlatan, infatuated with the possibilities of lighter-than-air travel. For modest fees, he demonstrates...