Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small group of men carefully made their way through the steel and concrete skeletons of one of Latin America's biggest housing projects-52 apartment towers, each twelve stories high, rising over 30 acres on the outskirts of Lima to provide government housing for 10,000 people. Stepping lightly across an open trench, a well-dressed visitor fell into step beside the chief engineer and started firing intense questions. "Is it going fast enough?" he demanded. "What are your problems?" "Are you getting all the help you need?" Everything was on schedule, replied the engineer. As the two circled...
Curtis announced at the same time that Matthew J. Culligan, who had been ousted as president and chief executive officer last October after being charged with mismanagement by revolting editors, would now step down as chairman and director. He will, however, continue to draw his $150,000 salary while working on special assignments: preparing a company history, scouting for broadcasting possibilities. Quipped Culligan, who had once confidently predicted that Curtis would be out of the red in 1964: "I guess I should say that I long for the obscurity I undoubtedly deserve...
...TEAMSTERS: Jimmy Hoffa, 52, is relatively young but much indicted, and if all his appeals fail, he may have to step aside for Einar Mohn, 59, the union's West Coast vice president...
...Corp.-Seagrams Ltd., but Edgar since 1957 has headed the mighty U.S. subsidiary, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons. At his order, it will soon bring out not only bottled cocktails, but also ten other new drinks in the most ambitious marketing program ever undertaken by any distiller. As the first step in that program, he jetted last week to Los Angeles to introduce a lighter blend of Four Roses in a bottle shaped like a fat paddle...
...past decade, no fewer than a million Americans seeking the sun have bought homes in Florida. Even more have taken the half step of buying land -for retirement, for future vacations, or merely for an investment. Now the trend is spreading overseas. From Caracas to Hong Kong, thousands of foreigners are buying palm-fringed lots in Florida, a place that most of them have never seen...