Word: parents
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seats a week out of Cuba, finally had to lock the doors of its ticket office. Pan American was booked solid into August. As each plane landed in Miami, it was greeted by crowds of anxious exiles, beseeching the new arrivals for word of a brother, a husband, a parent remaining in Cuba...
...advertising-idea man who, nine years out of the University of Michigan, accompanied Hibbs to the top as Post managing editor. Though it is bigger than ever at 6,377,367 circulation, the magazine that Robert Fuoss will command is in serious financial trouble; and so is its parent, Curtis Publishing Co., which 35 years ago was the sturdy colossus of the magazine world...
...sixth grade to become a piano-key fitter, bought a gas station on the installment plan, invested the profits in a Detroit pool hall, and then began buying up faltering businesses,* finally organizing a multimillion-dollar net of farm machine, lawn mower, and auto parts factories under the parent Mast-Foos Co., of which he was president until his death; of complications following surgery for lung cancer; in Detroit. On the theory that "happy employees do a better job," during his last 40 years in business Winslow deluged his delighted workers with $14 million worth of Shetland ponies, dental plates...
...daring appointment. The Villa Medici, like its parent school, the Beaux-Arts of Paris, has never been known for its tolerance of individualism. Of all the French artists sent there, only David and Ingres stand out as painters of the first rank. Malraux's plan is to give the Villa a new vitality. "This is what I propose," he told his friend Balthus. "A second ambassador in Italy. An ambassador of French culture. I would have conferences, receptions, movement!" Balthus was delighted to accept...
...House subcommittee on State Department appropriations, Rooney keeps a harsh eye and a hard thumb on what he calls "booze allowances for cooky pushers"-the representation allowance diplomats get for official entertaining. Last week the department's representation allowance request for fiscal 1962 was up before the parent House Appropriations Committee. Pared to meet Rooney's tastes, the $953,000 budget was well below the level provided by West Germany; it was barely $100,000 over the 1961 request, even though the U.S. has had to open 14 embassies and three consulates in new African countries. Result...