Word: momentum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bosses in Tandem. J. & L. has had its share of hard times. The company emerged from World War II with facilities that a shortsighted management had allowed to fall into desperate disrepair. The long, slow rebuilding process started by Admiral Ben Moreell in 1947 gathered momentum when Avery Comfort Adams, a supersalesman drafted from Pittsburgh Steel, took over in 1957. Shortly before his death, Adams retired last year; since then, Jones & Laughlin has operated under two bosses working in tandem. President William Johnston Stephens, 57, an outgoing salesman type like Adams, runs the day-to-day operations. Chairman Charles Milton...
...island's total of "Bootstrap" plants to 1,030. G.E. is producing switches and circuit breakers. Sperry Rand is making electric shavers. Maidenform is making bras, and Brunswick, sporting goods. This summer Ford will open a $15 million precision ballbearing factory near San Juan. To keep the momentum going, Puerto Rico is stretching tax exemptions to 17 years in some cases, plans to build small manufacturing plants on its own, then find companies to run them...
Albany. Montgomery was one of the first great battles won by the Negro in the South, and for a while after it was won everything seemed anticlimactic to King. When the sit-ins and freedom-ride movements gained momentum, King's S.C.L.C. helped organize and support them. But King somehow did not seem very efficient, and his apparent lack of imagination was to bring him to his lowest ebb in the Negro movement...
Spiritual Momentum. In performance, Tureck, 49, is rigorously severe. She strides to the piano and sits down to play with imposing authority and total concentration. Last week, in her annual Philharmonic Hall performance of the Goldberg Variations, she played without intermission or breaks for applause for 83 minutes-and when she stood at last, the cheers that greeted her seemed like shouts from the heart...
...perfectly captured the spiritual momentum of Bach's music...