Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...horse and hiring himself out to other farmers. At 17 he headed for Omaha, studied accounting while scouring floors and cleaning tables for board and tuition, got his first job as an accounting clerk with General Motors Acceptance Corp. Later, after Boyd served as a Nash sales executive, he ran his own Nash, then Buick dealerships in Sioux City, Iowa, and Alliance, Neb. In 1954, George Romney recruited Boyd as his special assistant, whose chief responsibility was beefing up American Motors' dealership system...
...voted the most valuable player on the squad. And he paid part of his expenses at Yale Law School by serving as assistant football coach and freshman boxing coach. In 1948, following a stint in the Navy and two years of law practice in Grand Rapids, Ford ran for Congress from Michigan's fifth Congressional District. He won with the backing of Senator Arthur Vandenberg, the G.O.P.'s leading advocate of a bi-partisan foreign policy, and he remains faithful to "modern realistic internationalism "and "constructive conservatism...
...approaches to problems and a flair for efficient administration. After years of representing the powerful trade unions in Parliament, Brown was made the party's deputy leader in 1960 by the late Hugh Gaitskell. When Gaitskell died, Brown was the logical choice for the leadership, but quickly ran into competition from Harold Wilson. Wilson finally beat out Brown in what Laborites quipped was less a contest of favorites than a tally of which man had made the fewest enemies...
...Many Gooks. In a search-and-destroy mission in la Drang Valley, within sight of the Cambodian border, an American unit last week ran headlong into a powerful force of just such men, the freshly infiltrated 101C North Vietnamese Regiment. Once again, la Drang became "the Valley of Death"-though the battle was on a far smaller scale. Lured into an ambush when they pursued a small group of Communist troops that they had sighted, two platoons of the 1st Cavalry (Airmobile), the division that inflicted last year's la Drang defeat on the Communists, were heavily outnumbered...
...Gamely, the company found reassurance in the fact that the deficit was "substantially lower than anticipated." Said President Roy Abernethy: "We've reached the bottom, from the standpoint of the current slide." Possibly - although, despite high hopes for its jazzed-up '67 models, mid-November A.M.C. sales ran 13.5% below the same period last year. Apparently trimming his own expectations a bit, Chairman Evans declared that "there is absolutely no possibility that A.M.C. might not survive...