Word: tirelessly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mardian's political views place him a few paces to the right of John Mitchell, but the boss joins others in regarding Mardian as a first-rate lawyer and tireless prosecutor. Because Mitchell has shifted dozens of key cases to the revived Internal Security Division, Mardian is already considered the Justice Department's No. 3 man behind Mitchell and Kleindienst. One former colleague sums up: "He's remarkable for the clarity with which he thinks, but he's an absolutely cold-blooded political operator...
...soon decided that the gadgets are dandy exercise machines as well as preparation for an even greater balancing act. "Kids today have to learn that life is full of hard knocks," he says enthusiastically. Besides, the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. donates multicolored tires for the cyclers to test, plus tireless promotion. "You might say," explains Moran, "we've gone cycledelic...
When Billy spars a few rounds with Ernie in the book's opening scene, the boy feels honored that he has "joined the company of men." In another age, Munger might have been a typical American golden boy, son of a tire recapper and a tireless, depleted mother, himself a gas station attendant, possessed of a muscled torso and a solemn, black-haired girlfriend (later wife) who holds back her sex until he confesses his love. But in 1969, cruising with fellow loafers past drive-ins and hamburger stands, boxing a few stumblebums for the cash it pays, Ernie...
Died. Stanley C. Allyn, 79, retired board chairman of the National Cash Register Co., who spent a lifetime traveling the globe in tireless promotion of U.S. wares and ideas; in Greenwich, Conn. Assuming the presidency in 1940, he energetically prepared N.C.R. for the postwar boom, then, just as the Germans surrendered, sailed for Europe, where N.C.R. immediately began building new factories. By his retirement in 1961, he had not only expanded overseas operations almost 20-fold but had diversified his company into the manufacture of new bookkeeping machines and computers...
...minor Tokyo bureaucrat, Senji Kataoka, 53, spends the week doing public relations chores for the Ministry of Agriculture. But every Sunday during the harvest season, he becomes an Oriental Quixote-a tireless crusader against the urban sprawl that is fast destroying Japan's rural beauty. Armed with three cameras, he mounts his Honda and chugs off to perform his duties as president (and sole member) of the Japan Scarecrow Institute. His mission: to save and celebrate scarecrows, "the silent critics of this country's devastating environmental disruptions...