Word: swansons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nicholas Anderson, however, was overshadowed by his more prominent son, said Albert A. Swanson, a historian for Metropolitan District Commission (MDC), which owns the bridge...
...hopeful book. The pace is quicker, the characters more firmly drawn, the sexual rites gentler. Greeley's turf remains Camelot West: the Chicago of lace-curtain Irish who have pushed their way to the top. Multimillionaire Mike Cronin, who beds women faster than Joe Kennedy could say "Gloria Swanson," has set the course for his two sons. Paul, the Notre Dame boy who goes off to win a Medal of Honor in the Korean War, is going to be President. Sean is bound for the priesthood, and will of course be a Cardinal. Paul's wife...
...products get technologically more complex and sophisticated, companies are finding that 800 numbers provide reassurance that expert advice and counseling will always be available to trouble-shoot a problem. Says Palmer Swanson, general manager of Polaroid Corp.'s customer service division, which successfully pioneered the use of 800 numbers as a device for customer support twelve years ago: "They are a wonderful consumer mechanism, the best! We let the customer know in every way we can that a Polaroid 800-number hot line comes as a service when you buy a Polaroid product...
...would buy them. Says Cetus Corp. Vice President William Amon: "There are far more technical opportunities than there are sensible market opportunities." Other new ventures ran into quality control problems when they mass produced drugs that were being made only in a laboratory test tube. Notes Genentech President Robert Swanson: "A number of companies have severely underestimated the enormous effort and specialized skills required to take a technical breakthrough and put it in a bottle ready for market...
...make his case, the author has to recycle much dirty laundry. He starts off with sex. Old Joe Kennedy showed his boys an example of relentless womanizing; he courted their dates and embarrassed their mother with his public attentions to Gloria Swanson. The lesson was clear: Kennedy men asserted themselves by breaking rules. When John followed this path, though, he got into trouble. The FBI taped the young naval officer's wartime dalliance with a European beauty-contest winner who had Nazi connections. In the White House, another affair put him in worse jeopardy. His partner, Judith Campbell (later...