Word: tomatoes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone else." Republican Secretary of State Howell Appling Jr. adds: "I'm struck by the number of people who don't have the vaguest notion of what Lodge stands for." Says Republican Tom McCall, who is running to succeed Appling: "This is the Year of the Green Tomato" -meaning that the "ripe tomatoes," Barry and Rocky, have been tasted by the electorate and found wanting...
...Tokyo baseball stadium provide background for one tingling chase. In a city overcome by heat, the camera searches a line of chorus girls collapsed on a dressing-room floor, flesh glistening with sweat, each face a breathless distillation of despair. After a murder, a closeup of a splattered tomato-despite the obvious symbolism-suddenly, almost insidiously, conveys the whole meaning of horror and grief combined...
...another company), but his infusion of young ideas into the company has set it off on a steady rise ever since. Gibson shook up a whole roster of vice presidents, increased the authority of divisional managers, applied scientific research to marketing Libby's 300 products (best seller: tomato juice). He feels that the best place for Libby to regain its youth is in Western Europe, where rising living standards provide a growing market for canned goods. Libby will add a $5,000,000 cannery in the Rhône Valley this year to already operating processing plants in West...
...Your report on two outstandingly successful businessmen in the Aug. 23 issue indicates that today's leaders have as little leisure time as a bondsman in the days of feudalism. Tomato Man Norton Simon "works seven days a week," and the Italian textile magnate "Bassetti works a 16-hour day seven days a week." Long hours are still apparently a most important ingredient in the successful business administrator's makeup...
...Picasso and Hans Hofmann. He serves on the University of California board of regents, and takes his intellectuality seriously, avoiding such normal business fare as cocktail parties and public functions. He and his wife like to give small dinners, at which the conversation is never as lowly as a tomato and the latest trends of philosophy provide the sauce. At home or at work, Norton Simon keeps busy at what he likes to call "the process of becoming...