Word: ryder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although the Great Southern experience left Ryder "more sober and more thoughtful," it did not keep him from experimenting. He considers himself something of a trucking consultant and has even endowed a chair at the University of Miami for transportation studies -partly to ease his own regret at not having had a college education. The Ryder corporation operates a 300-depot maintenance system that services other fleet owners as well as its own trucks, and has an engineering consulting division that advises truck buyers on their design needs and markets its own computer system. Last week Ryder and a consortium...
...Ryder is up each morning at six and begins the day by doing 50 pushups and taking a mile-long run through Miami's fashionable Coconut Grove with his three German shepherds. He relaxes by sailing one of his five floating rigs, from a sunfish to a 116-ft., $950,000 yacht. At the office, he is known as a boss who gives full reign on day-to-day matters to his lieutenants but nonetheless makes his opinions known in streams of one-line memos. Ryder's formula for creating the kind of empire that has made...
...second section the scene shifts to San Francisco and to a larger group of writers, including the young San Francisco poet Gary Snyder. It was Snyder whom Kerouac used as the model for his main character, "Japhy Ryder," in The Dharma Bums, a novel that takes place in the early days of the West Coast Beats. "Japhy Ryder" is a poet and Orientalist who lives in a hut in a Berkeley backyard and who spends much of his time sitting on the grass mats on the floor of his hut studying Oriental texts, and sipping tea. There are three pictures...
...first movie starring role, he gets to play a nude scene with Ann-Margret-written by her husband Roger Smith. And Joe Namath seems a bit nervous about his part in a motorcycle epic called C.C. Ryder & Company. On a TV show Broadway Joe asked Smith: "Doesn't the thought of having me do a nude scene with your wife bother you?" "Well, yes," allowed Smith. "On those days, I leave...
...Reed, Ryder diversified by buying a large stationery wholesaler, a wallpaper company, a paint firm and a company serving the do-it-yourself market. Under Ryder, Reed's sales have climbed from $307 million to $677 million last year, and profits have doubled to $22 million. Now Ryder's primary job will be to cut the publishing company's losses and mesh the disparate parts of the sprawling enterprise. Cudlipp will remain as a deputy chairman and editorial director. "There will be editorial freedom," says Ryder, "but if somebody goes berserk and the profits of the group...