Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Louisville paper hanger, Banner started working during high school as a machine-tool designer, became a clarinetist, next bought, with a partner, a grocery store in Louisville and, after selling the store, purchased a bowling alley, then a drive-in movie. Finally, in 1958 Banner seized the chance to buy the Nashville franchise for Shoney's Big Boy, a sort of Howard Johnson's featuring double hamburgers. His success with Big Boys led to another with Kentucky Fried Chicken. By 1971, when Shoney's Southern franchiser wanted to sell, Banner was ready...
Next to his use of homelife as a political tool, the most important feature of Al's rhetorical grab-bag is his odd combination of humor and bombast. Once, when he was trying to deliver a speech on nothing in particular at the beginning of a council meeting, Councilor Al asked aloud if anyone was listening to what he was saying. (He hadn't been reelected mayor yet; everybody listens to the mayor). When there was no reply, Al moved that the meeting be adjourned. Since it was Monday night and there was a football game on TV starting...
Textbook publishers don't encourage college professors to teach from the books they've written--they just expect that they will, the Houghton Mifflin man says. "Almost 95 per cent of the books we publish are written by professors and various other academics, and as a tool in their profession, we just assume they'll use it. To use someone else's would seem odd." But Harvard professors are not known for their homogeneity nor their conventionality: there are some who characteristically veer from the norm to write a textbook they adamantly refuse to teach from. Stanley Cavell, chairman...
...mavericks in other unions will doubtless be encouraged to mount similar campaigns, and a feisty season could ensue in the labor-management arena. Within the Steelworkers, the factional fight has already literally drawn blood. A man distributing Sadlowski leaflets was shot in the neck in July outside a Hughes Tool Co. plant in Houston, and another Sadlowski supporter was punched around by three old-liners during the convention in Las Vegas...
...candles. The knobby, stunted ends weighed down the hair and made it lie flat, all right, but Helmholz's Nob Hill clients waxed eloquent about tallow dripping down the backs of their necks. So Helmholz, 33, began experimenting with a small blowtorch and soon found it the perfect tool: "It is maneuverable, it singes places hitherto impossible to reach, and it is absolutely safe, as long as you always point the torch away from the skin...