Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smiling Through Millions. In 1907 Hayden was elected sheriff of Maricopa County. Phoenix was then a raw town of 10,000, its unpaved streets lined with saloons, gambling halls and brothels. Among Sheriff Hayden's duties was one to enforce an ordinance requiring Indians from the Maricopa Reservation to wear pants, not breechclouts, while in town. Once, according to a story Hayden likes to tell, a group of churchwomen complained to him that an old Indian chief outside town had three wives; they demanded that the sheriff do something about it. Hayden went to see the chief, explained: "Under...
...whole idea of freer trade may be a minority, but get heard. Notable among them is Colonel Willard F. Rock well, chairman of Pittsburgh's Rockwell Manufacturing Co. and Rockwell-Stand ard Corp. (pumps, valves, automotive parts and Aero Commander planes). Says he: "With high U.S. wages and raw-material costs, high taxes and low depreciation write-offs, I don't know of a single U.S. product that could compete with European industry." The nearest thing to unanimous opposition to the Kennedy program was heard among businessmen in the South - partly because much of the South...
...Indians. Jawaharlal Nehru took a bundle on his last vacation, reported that he was particularly tickled by The Last Hurrah. Ken Galbraith still has to fork out $500 a gross for the book that influential Indians seem to want most. Says he: "I thought it would be a bit raw to have the Ford Foundation buy up a supply of The Affluent Society...
...handicap, he pushed Snia into the front rank of industry by automating to cut costs and by instituting a research program so successful in turning up new fibers that, as he boasts, even the U.S.'s Allied Chemical Corp. has signed up to produce Snia's caprolactam, raw material for nylon. As head of one of the world's largest exporting companies, Marinotti brushes aside talk of Common Market challenges. Says he with a grin: "I've always been in the Common Market...
...acted by himself. And as the late James Thurber liked to remark, such comedy may be amusing, but it is also serious commentary on human life. "Gleason has gorgeous creative juices," says Requiem's Producer David Susskind with purple accuracy. "He is a thundering talent-the kind of raw, brilliant talent that has gone out of style, with as much instinct in drama as in comedy...