Word: sockless
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...careers. His persona and pronouncements became legends. Asked why he used one soap for washing as well as shaving, he replied, "Two soaps? That is too complicated." Even when receiving visitors like David Ben-Gurion (who later offered him the presidency of Israel), Einstein often would be tieless and sockless. Recalls Physicist-Biographer Banesh Hoffmann, who worked with Einstein: "He never tried to show you how clever he was. He always made you feel comfortable...
...serve as board chairman. Vittert set up shop in a windowless cubicle, recruited five staff members and began searching for clients, traveling around the country on cut-rate "youth-fare" plane tickets. At first his selling efforts met only rebuffs; middle managers noted Vittert's youth, then his sockless ankles, and instantly turned him down. Undaunted, he finessed the cadres of "no" men by telephoning top executives at home to ask for an interview. A major oil company hired his firm to recruit applicants for its credit cards among college students over...