Word: quite
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Biggest Killings. Arnold is not denying his roots; indeed, with the slightest prompting he can discourse endlessly on the subtleties of mule breeding or coon hunting. Most of his early memories are of hard, hard times. His father died when he was eleven, and he eventually had to quit high school to work the family's sharecropper farm. At 18, he hitched a ride on a cottonseed truck and landed a job singing on a radio station in Jackson, Tenn. After three years of internship with Pee Wee King and his Golden West Cowboys ("I sold song books...
Tjurs doesn't mean to pay a single cruzeiro. The penniless son of immigrants from Russia, he quit school early, went to work at jobs ranging from driving hacks to guiding tours. About all he remembers of his formal education is that "I learned how to add and subtract and multiply." That apparently was enough. Today, at 65, Tjurs has gathered together Brazil's biggest hotel chain; among his six hotels are Rio's 220-room Excelsior Copacabana, Sao Paulo's 17-story Jaragua and the 420-room Nacionál in Brasilia. All of this...
...reconsider, and the school board persuaded him to stay. Civil rights groups only increased their pressure: 225,000 students stayed out of school in one boycott. The school board tired of Willis last summer, informally voted 7 to 4 not to renew his contract, compromised on his guarantee to quit when he reaches 65 next December. Willis faced not only a hostile board but also 48 top Chicago businessmen-including Inland Steel's Joseph L. Block, Foote, Cone & Belding's Fairfax Cone, and Chicago & North Western's Ben Heineman-who last July urged selection...
...good times as well as bad, the Irish remain feisty folk. Among other things, labor-management strife increases even as the little (pop. 2,800,000) Republic of Ireland grows more prosperous. In 1960 Ireland had virtually no strikes. Last year it had 89 major ones - trainmen quit running trains, gravediggers quit digging graves, and, no doubt with special enthusiasm, mailmen cut off all parcel-post traffic be tween the Ould Sod and England...
...last throes. >Louis, the third of Napoleon's four brothers, was a double-gaited dandy who knew a thing or two about bad luck. His wife fell in love with his boy friend. To console himself, Louis wrote wispy verses. In 1809, to spite his brother, he quit his job as King of Holland and ran away to sulk for a couple of years in Austria. In 1814, when the allies invaded France, he had no time to fight-he was too busy correcting proofs of his novel (Marie, ou les Peines de l'Amour). At 60, though...