Word: ousting
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...that you do." That was in 1955, and since then Millionaire Winthrop Rockefeller, a transplanted New Yorker, has certainly paid heed to Orval's words. In fact, he has perhaps done too well at helping Arkansas redeem itself from poverty. For Democrat Faubus is now trying to oust Republican Rockefeller from the A.I.D.C. chairmanship...
...only other way the neighbors might try to oust Alpert from his home is to bring suit against him as a nuisance...
...while the insurgents thought of trying to oust Charlie himself, but then realized that they did not have that much influence. They talked of moving against Illinois' Les Arends, the G.O.P. whip; that idea also was discarded. Finally they decided to zero in on Iowa's Charles Hoeven, 67, chairman of the House Republican Conference. Their candidate to replace Hoeven: Michigan's Gerald Ford Jr., 49, a former University of Michigan football star who has become a recognized House expert in defense appropriations...
...Samuel Woodring of the North Augusta (S.C.) Star, who tried to oust the corrupt machine bullies and was beaten up by a police sergeant, called a dirty Rumanian Jew, a Yankee and a Communist? They started a boycott and another newspaper against him -but he didn't quit...
...return involves some of Madison Avenue's most elaborate brainstorming in years. To explain why Bert and Harry ever went away, Manhattan's Young & Rubicam ad agency has invented a mythical management consultant ("He's sort of a Wharton School of Finance type") who helped oust the brothers because their commercials were undignified. Named E. Gordon Gibbs after Y. & R.'s traffic director, he gets full blame for stepping in as Piel's advertising manager and personally ordering the jarring jingles. Outraged at his lack of taste-and perhaps by Piel's disappointing sales...