Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prisoners, published detailed charges that they had been regularly beaten by guards. Interior Minister Josef Pavel, himself a purge victim in 1951, revealed that the police had tried to extract a confession from him by putting an empty pail over his head and beating against it "until I nearly went...
There was a measure of merit in both men's arguments. Yet, while the quarrel went on, the ones who suffered most were those whom both Shanker and McCoy insist they want to help: the children in the classroom...
...retirement, Strouse will continue to some degree to be a spokesman. Though he never went to college, he is an ardent bibliophile, reads books as avidly as he hoards them, and once wrote a guide to book collecting called How to Build a Poor Man's Morgan Library. Accordingly, the University of California at Santa Cruz has tapped Strouse to become a regent's professor. In that capacity, starting next March, he will lecture and conduct seminars on art, literature, the history of rare books, the philosophy of business management and pragmatic economics. He may also work...
...rate of sales. The combined sales of the 200 were up 8.3% in 1967, down from the previous year's 9.5% but still ahead of the 500 U.S. companies, whose sales increase as a group was 7.9%. The profit picture was even more startling. Earnings of the 200 went up by 6.7%, compared with 1966's paltry 0.7% increase over 1965 and in sharp contrast with a 3.1% decrease in earnings...
Remaining at the top of the 200 are the joint British-Dutch companies, Royal Dutch/Shell ($8.4 billion in sales) and Unilever ($5.6 billion). British Petroleum ($3 billion) stayed in third place. Hit by a slump in domestic sales, Volkswagenwerk of Germany went from fourth to seventh place, giving up the No. 4 spot to Britain's Imperial Chemical Industries (sales: $2.69 billion v. Volkswagenwerk...