Word: rans
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Rockefeller gained the Republican nomination for governor with his favorite device--polls. His showed that he ran best among possible GOP candidates against Harriman, though he would lose heavily too, and therefore the nomination was hardly anything worth fighting for. In this way he whittled down the opposition of the state's powerful Republicans like Thomas Dewey who were suspicious of his ambition and his money. The contest of 1958 presented the ideal face for him; against Harriman, the Union Pacific heir, the issue of personal fortune was relatively muted. Rockefeller won by more than half a million votes, outspending...
Such Germanization succeeded brilliantly. Granada sales in the first four months of 1976 ran at an annual rate of 111,000, and sales of other Ford cars are climbing too. In one of his last acts as president, Lutz announced that German Ford had earned a record $111 million profit in 1975. Ford's share of the German market is up to 14.9% (v. Opel's 17.9%), and it should rise further in the fall with introduction of the Fiesta, a minicar that will be made in Germany, Spain and Britain to compete with Volkswagen's Rabbit...
...stores, which emphasize Evangelical works, grossed $303 million last year and should reach $350 million to $375 million for 1976, estimates John Bass, 50, the able Presbyterian who runs the C.B.A. When Bass first began coming to the conventions, they were populated largely by folks in their 50s who ran dusty little Mom-and-Pop Bible stores. Religion bookshops nowadays are bigger, better located and reaching many more customers. According to the association's ad-fat monthly, almost 50 titles now on the market have sold 1 million copies, and hundreds every year pass 100,000-substantially more than...
...Original Amateur Hour; of cancer; in North Tarrytown, N.Y. A bandleader in the 1920s, he started as talent scout for the radio version of the Amateur Hour in 1935, serving its late (1946) legendary M.C., Major Edward Bowes. Amateur Hour went on TV in 1948, and Mack ran the show until it died because of poor ratings in 1970. Among the future stars the show presented: Beverly Sills, Maria Callas, Ann-Margret, Pat Boone, and a skinny New Jersey kid named Frank Sinatra. Mack missed a couple: he rejected Elvis Presley and Tiny Tim. "Perhaps there was too much pelvis...
...this was an alien idea in Greece, incomprehensible to the wild tribesmen who actually lived there. When unorganized slaughter of Turkish citizens began in 1821, partly as the result of agitation by the expatriates, Greek fighting forces consisted mostly of mutually hostile guerrilla bands. Their chiefs fought, looted, connived, ran away or made peace separately, as they had always done, without regard to Western ideas of patriotism or military strategy. When Turks killed the rebellious brigands, they sent bags of ears back to the Sultan. When the Greeks won, they made pyramids of human heads...