Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pennsylvania has the fattest patronage payroll in the U.S.: some 55,000 jobs for whichever political party elects its Governor. Largely because the spoils are so sweet, Pennsylvania's Democrats and Republicans have for years fought bitterly among themselves and with each other. This year, with both the governorship and a U.S. Senate seat at stake in November, the scrambling has been at its height...
...monuments or figures a few inches high, he could produce any mood he chose. In his 21 studies of Beethoven, he distorted and exaggerated to reveal violence, sadness or ecstasy. In his Madame Roussel with Hat, the mood is elegantly casual, and few sculptures possess such an air of sweet repose as his Sculptress Resting, which is also a portrait of his wife...
Among major U.S. corporations, only Pennsylvania's Hershey Chocolate Corp. still does no national advertising, has no publicity man, and turns out just about what it did when Woodrow Wilson was President. All Hershey makes is chocolate bars, kisses, syrups, powders-and money. Because the great American sweet tooth seems unaffected by economic headaches, Hershey is apparently recession-proof. Last year it increased sales 4% to $177 million and rang up whopping pretax profits of $41 million. Three weeks ago, when Hershey unwrapped plans for a 5-for-1 stock split, its shares jumped 14 points...
Just as it dominates the U.S. chocolate market, the Hershey Corp.-and the ever-present sweet scent of its products-dominates the town of Hershey, in the undulating Pennsylvania Dutch country. Town and company alike were confected by patriarchal Milton S. Hershey, an ambitious farmboy who learned to make taffies that he called "French Secrets," went broke in three candy businesses before he built Hershey Chocolate in 1903 on the cornfields surrounding the house in which he was born. Exploiting a turn-of-the-century switch in U.S. tastes from other candies to chocolate, Milton Hershey...
...School, where he was one of two Negroes in a class of 65. "They played Comin' Through the Rye," he remembers, "and the boys and girls had to pair off, and what was I to do?" Pair off like everyone else, it turned out, for Schoolmarm Emma Belle Sweet "just took the pupils as they came. This meant something to me, something very important." Last week, honored as Citizen of the Year at an educators' conclave and requested to bring along his most formative teacher, Bunche chose Miss Sweet, now a spry 82. Diplomatically, Miss Sweet chose...