Word: son
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...come into a room draped with silk cloths. A dozen people?housewives, girls, young men?are sitting in a circle on the floor. Lying in the middle is a blonde, Leslie, around 20. Dennis joins the circle, all 13 witches join hands, and Dennis chants, "Spring equinox, golden son of the mountains, illumine the land!" The blonde, whose name is Leslie, says, "Little things are going wrong, and I know it can't be just bad luck." "Leslie's karma has been messed up," Dennis explains. "We have to locate the spirit." The whole group slides closer to Leslie...
...history of California's business enterprise reads almost like a parody of a chamber-of-commerce oration. In 1904 an immigrant's son, Amadeo Peter Giannini, founded a poor man's bank in a San Francisco saloon. Today the Bank of America is the world's largest, with assets of $25 billion, 952 Stateside branches and 94 overseas, and a creditcard system used by 25 million worldwide subscribers. Another poor boy. Charles B. ("Tex") Thornton, who started out as a government clerk, is one of the pioneers of the conglomerates with his Litton Industries. It was California that sent...
Such parents feel in effect that a baby who wets his diapers or hurls his Pablum at the ceiling is demonstrating that they are failures as parents. One young mother went into an all-day fit of hysterics because her young son refused to keep his coat on outdoors. Another told Colorado's investigators: "I have never felt really loved all my life. When the baby was born, I thought he would love me. When he cried, it meant he didn't love...
...paper was on the market. It also surprised Knight Newspapers, whose president, Lee Hills, emphasized: "Annenberg came to us. But why he did so and what was on his mind, I cannot say." The only explanation Annenberg offered came in a prepared statement: "With the passing of my only son, there is no likely possibility of family transference, and hence my desire to ensure a future ownership in which I have confidence." This posed more questions than it answered. For one thing, Annenberg's son died in 1962. Why wait so long to sell...
...Labor, a post usually assigned to lawyers. He labors hard himself, arriving at his desk at 7:30 a.m. and often returning to work in the evening, with occasional time out for tennis or golf. Once he beat A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany by ten strokes (80 to 90). Son of a New York Stock Exchange official, Shultz graduated from Princeton in 1942 with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T. in 1949, then joined the faculty as a professor of industrial...