Word: souped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Triumphant, the Buddhists called off their demonstration, and five monks who had been "fasting to the death" celebrated by spooning down bowls of chao, a thin rice soup. Reportedly, Khanh claimed to have reached an agreement with the Buddhists under which they promised to withdraw from politics for two years and send three leading monks, including Thich Tri Quang, abroad for a while. A Buddhist spokesman promptly disclaimed any agreement. Buddhist Leader Tri Quang, now quite possibly the most powerful South Vietnamese, rejected Khanh in an interview...
...problems. His statement of assets: 1961 Chevrolet, $1,000; home in Fond du Lac, $7,200 (minus a $6,000 mortgage); cash, $500. In fact, since he quit his $125-a-week machinist's job to campaign in July, he, his wife and daughter "have been eating bean soup and peanut-butter sandwiches"; and he borrowed $1,750 from his campaign fund, and $1,500 from the bank to tide him over until he could start collecting his $30,000 annual congressional salary this month...
...nation's business psychology. Last week the council elected a new chairman, whose name, face and words will be before the public in the months to come while he acts as spokesman for the nation's top businessmen. The man: William Beverly Murphy, 57, president of Campbell Soup...
Cooking Up Sales. Like all the other members of the council, Murphy is first a businessman whose reputation ultimately depends on how he performs as a manager. As boss of the world's biggest soup company, which he joined in 1938 after working for the Nielsen rating service, Murphy has proved his ability. His first job at the Camden, N.J., headquarters was devising new products to cook up more sales. He has stuck to the recipe so well that Campbell's sales and profits have doubled since he became president in 1953, and profits have risen every year...
Campbell not only dominates the U.S. soup market, canned and frozen, but is the nation's largest producer of canned spaghetti (Franco-American), blended vegetable juice (V-8), frozen meat pies and TV dinners. Not content with selling 300 products in 110 nations, it has introduced 20 new items since August, is busy expanding seven of its 19 U.S. plants. Murphy, who earns a salary of $216,274 a year, also believes in personal diversification. He is a director of A.T. & T. and Merck, a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania and ;M.I.T. and co-chairman of the Greater...