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Word: roadster (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June of that year, I met Arthur with my bags packed and my Buick roadster, a car of those days, all ready to go. It was a hot day. Arthur looked at the car-it wasn't a Rolls Royce-and he looked at me and he thought of the long trip. He also had his bags with him. rather large for a Buick Roadster and he said. "Oh God, how are we going to make...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...June of that year, I met Arthur with my bags packed and my Buick roadster, a car of those days, all ready to go. It was a hot day. Arthur looked at the car -- it wasn't a Rolls Royce--and he looked at me and he thought of the long trip. He also had his bags with him, rather large for a Buick Roadster, and he said, "Oh God, how are we going to make...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Old Books in and Under the Yard | 6/12/1969 | See Source »

...chain "the family drugstore." He sends every one of his 2,600 employees a personal birthday card, welcomes their suggestions and personally answers every one. To get "better feedback" from his pharmacists and counter clerks, he logs 30,000 miles a year at the wheel of his white Porsche roadster, visiting his stores. Every written complaint from a customer also gets a personal reply. "Nine times out of ten I can't help them," Eckerd admits, "but at least they know I'll do my best to correct the trouble." He means it. When a St. Petersburg woman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Retailing: The Personal Touch | 5/2/1969 | See Source »

...June of that year, I met Arthur with my bags packed and my Buick roadster, a car of those days, all ready to go. It was a hot day. Arthur looked at the car -- it wasn't a Rolls Royce--and he looked at me and he thought of the long trip. He also had his bags with him, rather large for a Buick Roadster, and he said, 'Oh God how are we going to make...

Author: By Nicholas Gagarin, | Title: Priceless Books And A Quiet Mission | 10/22/1968 | See Source »

Rowan, who was divorced in 1959, lives sedately with his second wife, Adriana, 26, a former model, in a spacious three-bedroom apartment overlooking the harbor of Manna Del Rey. The garage below houses four cars (a Mercedes-Benz roadster and sedan, an Austin-Healey and a Corvette). Berthed at the dock out back is a 35-ft. ketch, Aisling (Gaelic for dream spirit), on which the Rowans spend most weekends. "These signs of success," Rowan says, "are nice things, appreciated and prized. But you know, more important and more rewarding than any of these things is doing your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verrry Interesting . . . But Wild | 10/11/1968 | See Source »

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