Word: parently
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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EVERYTHING THAT RISES MUST CONVERGE, by Flannery O'Connor. These last brilliant stories by the late Miss O'Connor give no quarter to pity and seldom, even, to compassion. Instead, they illustrate the author's favorite themes: the bonds between parent and child, between the tyrannical weak and the consuming strong, and between Southerners-white and Negro-leashed in hatred to each other...
...that two strange women had just tried to recruit her junior high school daughter to "date men for money." No sooner had she hung up than a second mother called in to say, "And I thought I was the only one." Then came a third and a fourth parent and, finally, the chief of police himself. The next night, as he promised, the prostitution ring, including a 13-year-old, was broken up by the cops...
...years to seven years the average age of its fleet on the competitive "Southern Atlantic" route, increased its capacity by 30%. Equally important, the twins created work for the Genoa and Trieste shipyards and the Italsider steel complex-all of which are owned by the Italian Line's parent, the IRI monopoly that is Italy's biggest enterprise...
...before touchy national pride and tapped for its inner circle of top command an American whose career is built on research. The man: Monroe E. Spaght (pronounced spate), president and chief executive of Shell Oil Co., who was picked as a managing director of Shell's huge European parent, Royal Dutch/Shell...
...Standard of New Jersey), the Shell group's performance last year was disappointing. Despite record sales of $6.9 billion, a sharp drop in gasoline and oil prices in Europe and Japan helped depress profits 3% to $583 million. Without U.S. Shell, which is 69% owned by its European parent, the slide would have been steeper. The profits of Spaght's realm rose 10% (to $198 million), fueled principally by a record $2.8 billion in sales. Since taking charge four years ago, Spaght has expanded marketing facilities so shrewdly that gasoline sales have shot up more than 40% . Last...