Word: texan
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...many businessmen used to working within well-defined industry lines, all this seems more like a potpourri than a company. Almost every time that Litton announces a new product or acquisition-which is almost every week-there is a new flurry of predictions that at last the fast-stepping Texan has gone too far. If Tex Thornton's business philosophy often confuses his critics, it is perhaps because it is so breathtakingly broad and ambitious. He is interested in change, and pursues it wherever he can. Litton's present and future are tied together by a commitment...
...Thornton's job to see that Litton takes advantage of the opportunities. Many men in both business and Government consider Thornton to be the best executive in the U.S. today. Yet his gifts are not always on display, and in many ways the low-key Texan does not fit the usual conception of a dynamic manager at work in an exciting industry...
Emerson's old spot as top-seeded player at Forest Hills was taken over by Chuck McKinley, 22, the power-driving Texan who beat all comers at Wimbledon in July. McKinley's stunning win in England (he never lost a set, polished off Australia's Fred Stolle in the finals 9-7, 6-1, 6-4) evoked comforting shades of Trabert and Don Budge and clearly established him as America's-and perhaps the world's-best tennis amateur. McKinley followed up Wimbledon with a slamming defense of his national clay courts championship...
Liberal Democrats in the House are fighting this week to prevent Speaker John W. McCormack from filling a vacancy on the powerful Rules Committee with Rep. John Young, a conservative Texan. If McCormack's intentions are carried out Young would replace Rep. Homer Thornberry, also of Texas, who has been nominated for a Federal judgeship...
Below this level of fascinated chatter is a world that the conventionally sophisticated prefer not to know. The difference is the same as between reading about leprosy in a Graham Greene novel and actually seeing a man who has no nose. John Rechy, a young (29) Texan, has written a book about homosexuality that offers a report of the male prostitute's world. Cast as a confession, it is not a novel except in form; what value it has depends on its truthfulness as eyewitness reportage. It has been wildly heralded. James Baldwin: "Rechy is the most arresting young...