Word: restlessness
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...Restless Entrepreneur Norton Simon has yet to find the all-purpose chief executive for Hunt Foods & Industries. Recently, Simon replaced President Francis Fabian, 52, an operations expert who served him for about two years. Into the gap went William E. McKenna, 48, a smooth-talking senior vice president from Litton Industries with an accounting background and a Harvard Business School degree. Simon makes no bones about the reason for the change: he wants to expand his empire of subsidiaries and affiliates, which already includes McCall Corp., Hunt-Wesson Foods, Inc., Knox Glass Inc., Canada Dry Corp. and Crucible Steel Corp...
...irony of George Gallup's latest poll was that it showed Nelson Rockefeller, who stayed home, far ahead of his restless friends. Rocky led L.B.J. by 14 points while Richard Nixon was ahead by four and George Romney by three...
...clinics at the foundation are victims of dyslexia (TIME, May 13, 1966), a catchall term describing children who suffer from slight brain damage or inherited neurological handicaps that interfere with their control over both motor and sensory functions. Some are hyperactive-any kind of stimulation distracts them, makes them restless. Others withdraw into a shell, have trouble expressing themselves, prefer not to try rather than risk failure at learning. All seem unable to concentrate more than fleetingly on a problem; many see letters transposed, hear sounds out of order, cannot write in a normal sequence...
...speeches droned on for two hours, as Phil Ochs and Peter, Paul and Mary (remember?) soured a few songs, as the crowd became more and more restless, a strange thing happened. It was becoming evident that here around the Reflecting Pool people were celebrating the last sacrament of an irrelevant form of protest. The crowd was itching to get going, to bury the numbers game once and for all, to do something hard and steely and significant this time...
...that Lin and Mao would have wished. Some Sinologists, taking advantage of National Day to sum up their feelings on China, are now convinced that a halt has been called to the Cultural Revolution-but that the chaos and dis order it has spawned among China's restless masses are far from finished...