Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...death, and when he senses its imminence it requires all his strength to keep from cracking up. Since he has nothing to bequeath, he is determined to leave at least a memory of uncomplaining courage. As his hour approaches, irrational hopes and fears seize him. He has a nightmare vision of yawning hell, and mistakes a grandchild for a daughter who had died at three. As his body shrinks, so does the area that absorbs his attention. The world of town and factory, of family and responsibility, gives way to what goes on in the house, "and then to this...
...Allie's recollections with other pioneer recollections and his own archive diggings, Historian Waters has produced a flavorful, though poorly organized book that presents the Earps as little better than cow-country Capones. Yet, if he has deflated one dream, Waters, unlike most debunkers. has offered a pleasant vision in its place: that of a gay, gallant old lady in her rocking chair, dreaming of corn-tall buffalo grass and a dead, handsome lover...
...Fairchild. "I said no, I've met their people, and that is good enough for me. Everyone I met seemed to know his business, what the company objectives were, and how they proposed to get there. Why look at the books? In growth companies, you need people with vision and organization." The new growth and glamour stocks, selling at up to 100 times earnings (blue chips average a mere 16 times earnings), are of such dubious value by older stand ards that Wall Street has its own jokes about them. Jack Dreyfus, head of the $109 million Dreyfus Fund...
Gravel for Grass. Sherman Fairchild amply meets his own definition of managers with vision. "If you can do constructive thinking along unorthodox lines in business," says IBM President Thomas Watson Jr., "you have it made. Sherman Fairchild is able to think along unorthodox lines." Fairchild's departure from orthodoxy begins right at the front door of his town house on Manhattan's East 65th Street, where he conducts all the affairs of his companies. The house is the height of a three-story house, but actually contains six levels built around an inner courtyard. Instead of staircases, long...
...Heat Exhaustion. One severe form results from spending several months in hot, moist climates. Marked by fatigue, headaches, dizziness, blurred vision, palpitations and-paradoxically-inability to sweat, except on the face, palms and soles. Moving back to a temperate climate (or into air-conditioned quarters) is the answer, but the sweating mechanism may be knocked out for months, leaving continued danger of heat stroke...