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RIOTS. CHAOS. The parade was followed by a keynote speech by Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter that was received, reported the Richmond Times-Dispatch, with "remarkably convincing mock boredom...
Many papers rallied behind Nixon. The Richmond News Leader said that "practically every American can take pride" in Nixon's stand. Hearst's Seattle Post-Intelligencer, sometimes critical of the President in the past, now swung behind his "response to Communist aggression." New York's Daily News figured that 90% would back Nixon: "The other 10% could include kooks, would-be Presidents, Nixon-hating politicians, commentators and columnists, domestic Reds and others who have sabotaged the war effort for years and still have a right to freedom of speech and press." The Daily News came close...
Brash, bold and bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald...
Southern Comfort. Gottwald did not always have such problems. He began his career half a century ago as a clerk at Richmond's Albemarle Paper Manufacturing Co., frugally saved his salary, invested all he could in the company's stock, and continued to do so as he climbed the management ladder. Ultimately he became president-and the biggest shareholder. Gottwald's dollar-tight reputation endeared him to bankers, who deemed him a sound credit risk. Indeed Gottwald and his sons were able to borrow $200 million ten years ago to buy Ethyl Corp. from General Motors...
Coach Hewes hopes that the lower half of her lineup will be able to produce a strong effort in support of the top three. Ellen rouse, Ingrid Sarapuu, land March Richmond will compete at four, five and sex respectively...