Word: penchants
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carol cannot yet afford to buy her own jet, like Arnie Palmer and Jack Nicklaus, her golf winnings do allow her to indulge her penchant for thigh-high, pastel-colored skirts ("I wear miniskirts and maxi-legs"). And if worse comes to worst, she can always pick up a little change by challenging men to a driving contest. Probably the longest hitter on the ladies' tour, Carol consistently belts her drives 250 yds. or more, and there is little wrong with the rest of her game. Last month, in Atlanta's Lady Carling Open, she shot...
...Penchant for Pennies. American Home has grown faster than ever under William F. Laporte, 54, a somewhat shy and self-effacing salesman who succeeded Brush as board chairman in 1965. Son of a Passaic, N.J., banker who was a longtime friend of Brush, Laporte became an American Home sales trainee in 1938, after graduating from Princeton and Harvard Business School. Under his leadership, American Home has stepped up diversification. In 1965, the company bought Chicago-based Ekco Products Inc. for $145 million, thus became the world's biggest maker of pots, pans and other kitchen utensils. Then it outmaneuvered...
Well aware that its millions come from sales of many small packages, American Home has a housewife's penchant for counting pennies. American Home has no company planes, not even company cars. In the office, Laporte likes to pad down the plain tile hallways, buttonholing executives with questions like "What have you done for us today?" Nobody ever need ask Laporte that question. At American Home board meetings, the man running the movie projector is likely to be the company's $172,000-a-year boss...
With his new penchant for self-deprecation, Nixon recalled how a young girl had stopped him on the street in New York and enthusiastically asked him to autograph his picture. "That's a wonderful picture, Mr. Nixon," the jumping teeny-bopper gushed. "It doesn't look like you at all." Asked to describe the "new" Nixon, he fingered his receding hairline and allowed: "Well, the new Nixon is older, to begin with. Perhaps he has acquired, I should hope, some more wisdom...
...Johnson had become annoyed by the North Vietnamese penchant for making proposals through the press rather than through diplomatic channels. At the President's orders, Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach called in Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin and delivered a caustic protest over Tass's violation of diplomatic etiquette. At the White House Presidential Press Secretary George Christian said: "Those acting in good faith will not seek to make this a matter of propaganda...