Word: petted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pet Inc., since its birth in 1885, has always been pretty much a family affair. Among other things, three successive presidents have been relatives of Founder Louis Latzer, who died in 1924. Last week Pet broke the familial format, named as its president Gordon Ellis, 51, a onetime grocery clerk who, as vice president in charge of operations, helped raise this year's sales to $423,271,000. Still, Ellis will have three Latzer relatives on his top-level corporate team...
...cover picture, of the killer and his pet dog, came from a roll of film in a camera found in his effects. With it was a polite note that is in itself a comment on the complexity of the problem of the psychotic in society. It asked that the finder have the film developed, and ended: "Thank you, Charles J. Whitman...
...droll defense of an aimless Czech teenager, who drifts from senseless jobs to hopeless dance-hall encounters to empty lectures at home. In the devastating symbolism of Joseph Kilián, by 30-year-old Director Pavel Juráček, the protagonist borrows a cat from a pet shop and is entangled in a bleak, Kafkaesque nightmare while trying to return it. Painting a surprisingly harsh portrait of Communism's common man, Evald Schorm, 34, debunks bureaucracy with unmuffled freedom in his Courage for Every Day. Chosen by a magazine as the exemplar of the socialist ideal...
...Bayonne high school math teacher, Axelrod is fluent in seven languages, holds degrees in mathematics and biology. He reveres the late General Motors Wizard Alfred P. Sloan in the way that most naturalists regard Charles Darwin. At a pet-business convention in Manhattan last week, Axelrod showed off fish food that would have intrigued Darwin. This was Tubifex Worms-ordinary sewer-variety worms spiked with a tasty, Axelrod-discovered fish-blood extract, and dry-frozen. Axelrod, always confident, expects that the new product will capture most of the fish-food market...
...made his declaration in London, where he is acting in a war film called The Dirty Dozen. An outspoken black-power advocate who has publicly praised the Black Muslims, Brown plans to promote a pet activist project: the Negro Industrial and Economic Union. "We want to instill a sense of pride in the 22 million black people in the U.S.," he said. Although he is giving up a $65,000-a-year job with the Browns, Jim will hardly feel the pinch. He is getting $40,000 for his movie role as a racist murderer. "He could," says a Hollywood...