Word: ohio
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precise scheduling and by ridding it of its small-town runs. Barnes also runs a marketing and planning division that probably is the best in the industry. Two years ago, he inspired a joint ticketing and routing operation with Pan American that enables an Allegheny passenger in, say, Canton, Ohio, or Lexington, Ky., to buy a single ticket straight through to Paris or any other Pan Am stop. In 1973 the program took in $5.3 million, 90% more than the previous year...
Died. John Crowe Ransom, 86, poet, critic and longtime editor of the Kenyan Review; in Gambier, Ohio. Widely acclaimed for his poems, which were distinguished by compressed emotion expressed in courtly rhetoric, Ransom was also an influential teacher. As an instructor at Vanderbilt University in the 1920s, the Tennessee-born Rhodes scholar shepherded the Fugitives, a flock of young Southern poets (including Allen Tate and Robert Perm Warren) who celebrated the virtues of Southern agrarianism in defiance of the machine age. In 1937 Ransom moved to Kenyon College, where he attracted such poets as Randall Jarrell and Robert Lowell...
...Stanley Pottinger, 34. A politically conservative, Harvard-trained lawyer from Ohio, Pottinger joined the Nixon Administration almost five years ago. He spent most of 1970 traversing the South for HEW, helping complete the integration of public schools. As Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Justice Department's civil rights division since 1973, he played a key role in reopening the Kent State investigation and started an Office of Indian Rights. Pottinger points out that in the last 18 months, "we've filed more [civil rights] suits than in any comparable period in the division's history...
John H. Bustamante, 44. In 1971 he was named a director of Higbee's, Cleveland's largest department store; In 1972 he was elected to the board of the Northern Ohio Bank; In June he opened the First Bank and Trust of Cleveland, Ohio's only black-owned and -operated bank which he helped found. A wealthy Harvard graduate with a lucrative law practice, he moves easily in both black and white society, and through his ventures Is easing the way for more blacks to enter the economic mainstream. Born in Santiago, Cuba, he grew...
Patrick Caddell, 24. Already a veteran psephologist, Caddell did election projections for a local TV station as a high school student in Jacksonville, Fla. In 1970 he polled for Ohio's Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate (now Governor) John Gilligan at a salary of 18? an hour plus expenses and produced an ungainly -and largely unread-2,000-page report. But by 1971 the Harvard senior and two partners had refined their technique and formed Cambridge Survey Research. Their first of many clients: George McGovern, whom C.S.R. projected as the Democratic nominee. Next, C.S.R. plans to offer quarterly economic reports...