Word: popularizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Leadership, Old Politics. All along, Rockefeller has sought the nomination through the opinion polls, rather than through the party chiefs, who have always distrusted him. Yet he has done little to boost himself in the public standing. Now he is seeking to mobilize a popular thrust that will force the delegates to accept...
EIGHTEENTH century France bequeathed to the modern world the concepts of revolution and popular democracy-and last week the French seemed bent on perilously trying to practice both at the same time. As the campaign to elect a new National Assembly got underway, rioting and violence erupted anew in cities throughout France. For a while it looked as though the explosion of police concussion and tear-gas grenades might blot out the appeals for votes by the 2,260 candidates running on broadly diverse platforms in Metropolitan France's 470 electoral districts...
...amusing and exciting diversification," observes Powell, who adds that Booker intends to get no more deeply involved in publishing. Although its authors are providing Booker with its best return on investment, the company also is the biggest importer of rum into Britain, where rum is the second most popular drink after gin. Overall company sales are now $80 million, and profits last year...
...Teddy bear," says Hans-Otto Steiff, 48, who has headed the business for the past 18 years, "has always been our most popular toy." Still, it is only one of a menagerie of 250 different stuffed animals running the gamut from A (alligators) to Z (zebras). Visiting toyshops and department stores in the U.S. last week, Steiff was taking orders for everything from a thumb-sized ladybug made of clipped wool (60?) to an 8½-ft.-tall giraffe covered in mohair plush ($500). The company's 2,100 workers also turn out life-sized gorillas, kangaroos and buffaloes...
National Network. Such speed is as popular with real estate men as it is with house hunters. A few weeks ago, a $15,500 ranch-style home became available in the Detroit area on a Saturday morning. Even though it was not officially listed, indexed, and publicized, eleven people learned of it through Realtron and came to visit it. By that afternoon, the house was sold to one of them. Says E. Gordon Sinclair, president of Evergreen Realty: "Normally, we wouldn't have had that house on the market for five days...