Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Away with "Strays." Well over 100 recruiting firms have sprung up to meet this growing demand. Manhattan's Ward Howell Associates is currently seeking presidents for nine corporations whose yearly sales range up to $400 million...
Impatient Heeler. The incidents did not appear to hinder OAS negotiations. García Godoy campaigned around town like a practiced ward heeler, even began considering Cabinet members while waiting impatiently for the formal announcement of his appointment. As one OAS meeting followed another, Caamaño seemed to back García Godoy while Imbert continued to stall. The final choice may come next week-or next month. For all its frustration, the U.S. is still certain that it is now only a matter of time before both sides agree on a name...
...peeled off a tire at 150 m.p.h. and the left rear wheel of his Lotus collapsed. Old Indy hands had to admire the way the "sporty-car" driver from Scotland held his bucking car steady and braked it to a stop on the infield grass ("Of course," added Rodger Ward, "if he didn't, his tail would've been a grape"). The same evil luck dogged Clark in Europe all summer: he won three out of his first five Grand Prix, seemed well on his way to a second straight championship when all sorts of little things started...
...everyone knows that Lyndon and Bobby have never had much use for each other. "The indifference of Robert F. Kennedy to Lyndon John son during his brother's Presidency had been embittering," writes White. "So, too, was Kennedy's abruptness of manner. Kennedy, a man as straightfor ward as Johnson is complicated, had not so much offended Johnson as ignored...
...disaster, for one thing: A. J. Foyt, Rodger Ward and Parnelli Jones crashed in practice, and if the three top Indy veterans couldn't control their cars, what could be expected from the eleven green rookies in the race? There was the Great Tire War between Firestone and Goodyear (TIME, May 28), and the knock-down Battle of the Enginemakers between Ford, which entered its first Memorial Day 500 just two years ago, and Offenhauser, which had ruled the Brickyard for 18 straight years...