Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eager makers of business machines with audacious plans to challenge the International Business Machines Corp. in IBM's home market. The foreign businessmen: President Joseph Callies, 50, and General Manager Georges Vieillard, 64, of France's fast-rising La Compagnie des Machines Bull. Barely known outside France ten years ago, Machines Bull manufactures a line of punch-card and sorting machines topped off by computers. Recently it pulled abreast of IBM in many markets of the Continent, is now the biggest computer maker outside...
...joining Pennsy as an engineering trainee in 1928, highballed up the corporate track, was boosted to vice president in 1955. Along the route, he distinguished himself by making fast decisions, stopping the buck at his door. Married and father of two sons, he is used to putting in a ten-hour day, gathering his own facts by pounding the rails. As chief administrative officer, he will be in charge of the road's everyday operation, will have even less time for the golf and woodworking that he enjoyed before the lightning struck...
...portrait that has the lived-with, lived-through intensity of a major novel. Never before have people so painfully close to Joyce stepped so personably out of the shadow of his reputation. There is his father John, a barroom wit and tosspot, would-be singer and doctor, who sired ten children and saddled his brood with eleven mortgages. There is Joyce's wife Nora, a Galway girl with a tart tongue and no head for "that chop suey he's writing," as she once said of Finnegans Wake. There is Brother Stanislaus, the plodding provident ant in Joyce...
...Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and ten-year-old Patty Duke superbly enact famed Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent, triumphant struggle with the child Helen Keller. The play is sometimes clumsy, but the show as a whole is unforgettable theater...
...news-hungry students who bought out the supplementary supply in record time. A crowd in South Station tore the New York papers off the stands before they could be properly assembled, often leaving with only half of the thick Sunday edition. The entire supply was sold in ten minutes...