Word: outfits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert O. Hayes Foundation is only one of hundreds of small, not-for-profit foundations and trusts that have sprung up under the umbrella of an Illinois outfit known as Americans Building Constitutionally (ABC). The organization was started 18 months ago by an itinerant financial adviser, James Walsh, and Robert D. Hayes, former owner of a private business-administration school (and also, by no coincidence, Robert O. Hayes's father). The two were drawn together by the idea of bringing foundations to the average well-off citizen. If such big shots as the Kennedys and the Johnsons could...
...than 500,000 students from such companies as Pfizer, General Electric, Burlington Industries and Eastern Airlines. Just Like Golf. Eying the $6 billion to $8 billion a year that companies now spend on training programs, Xerox got a foot in the classroom door when it bought a Cambridge, Mass, outfit called Basic Systems Inc. three years ago for $5,600,000. Founded by a group of behavioral psychologists at work on applying modern teaching theory to classroom usage, Basic Systems has quadrupled its revenues to some $4 million a year under Xerox...
What better outfit to pick for a meeting with Charles de Gaulle than a snappy little soldier suit, complete with gold-braided lapels and epaulets? And that's just what Actress Brigitte Bardot, 33, stepped into for a show folk get-together at the Elysee Palace. Le General was smitten. "We are enchanted to see you-enchanted is the word," saluted France's President. "I liked Viva Maria very much." "But you saw it?" ventured a flustered BB. "Yes, on television," replied BB's newest home-screen...
...McCarthy alone. No fewer than nine major groups of Democrats are determined to dispossess the President, to reverse his Viet Nam policies, or both. Dissenting Democrats, an outfit headed by Actor Robert (The Man From U.N.C.L.E.) Vaughn, is placing ads in 25 newspapers to warn the President: "From this day on, our campaign funds, our energies and our votes go to those, and only those, who work for an end to the war in Viet Nam." In Chicago at week's end, the Conference of Concerned Democrats met to chart plans for slates opposed to Johnson in 15 states...
...Mangla dam last week were Guy F. Atkinson, who at 92 is still active as board chairman of the company, and his son, Company President George Atkinson. They founded their family-dominated enterprise in 1926 and brought it to its present top rank as a heavy-engineering outfit, specializing in hydroelectric projects...