Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Robert Kennedy's murder, the Associated Press counted 199 Americans killed by gunfire in only seven days. The toll of citizen slaughter apparently rose even higher last week...
...contest winners will gain niches in British folklore, but few will rate the special affection that went to diffident Alec Rose, as he quietly accepted the tributes of 200,000 horn-honking fans who overran Portsmouth, his home town, to greet him. Unlike Chichester, Rose had no commercial sponsor. From the moment, five years ago, when he hauled the dilapidated Lively Lady off a mudbank and started to fit her out for the rough 50-week sail, determination counted far more heavily than cash in his achievement. "It makes you feel rather humble," said Alec, "that everybody wants to congratulate...
...high mountains or arctic wastes, race over deserts, relentlessly push through tropical jungles. The latest of that intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood." Praising his "tenacity, skill and courage, "Queen Elizabeth knighted Rose and invited him and his wife Dorothy to lunch at Buckingham Palace...
...fold (and combined revenues of $2.36 billion for last year), Montgomery Ward would still rank third in its field, well behind Sears, Roebuck and a bit below J.C. Penney. In his seven-year struggle to revitalize Wards, Tom Brooker has unabashedly borrowed many tactics from Sears, where he rose to a vice presidency for manufacturing before leaving in 1958 to head appliance-making Whirlpool Corp. He closed marginal outlets, invested much of Wards' pile of idle cash in big new suburban stores, revamped sagging catalog sales, upgraded merchandise lines, established long-term contracts with suppliers. Following Sears by entering...
...president at Ford. Miller at 51 was shunted sideways into the newly created spot of vice chairman-after 22 years with the company, which he joined with Robert McNamara as one of the famed "whiz kids." A scholarly executive who once taught economics at the University of California and rose through finance to the top, Miller could never boast, like many of his fellow automen, that he had gasoline in his veins. "I have been an automobile man interested in education," he says. "Now I'll be an educator interested in the automobile industry...