Word: wide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite a continuing industry-wide fourth-quarter slump, the man in the Chrysler Corp. driver's seat, Lynn Townsend, expects the company's 1966 sales to climb "very close" to $6 billion-an improvement over 1965 by an estimated $700 million. In that optimistic frame of mind, Townsend last week announced that he is moving up from president to chairman and chief policy officer, taking the place of retiring George H. Love, who in his own words has served primarily as Townsend's "father confessor" in recent months...
...white photographs and 79 line drawings by Pierre Bonnard, a painter who looked like a postal clerk on the point of tears. Bonnard was, in fact, a failed lawyer who fell in with artists in Paris, and never recovered until he died at 79. His range was nearly as wide as his lifespan: Paris posters resembling those of Toulouse-Lautrec, portraits of midinettes with the geisha gestures of Hiroshige figures, pointillistic experiments with gossamer landscapes, indolent nudes. In the preface, Critics Jean Cassou and Raymond Cogniat try to define Bonnard's place in modern art. Their conclusion: his true...
...close as most Americans will get to China this year. The photos, like China itself, seem timeless: men and women straining to haul boats upriver against a driving current, bent-backed peasants at labor in the fields, students planting trees, Mongolian horsemen racing across the steppe. And everywhere, plump wide-eyed children...
...proposes that the Court create a special commission to conduct the study -- the results of which could have wide-ranging repercussions. And at the same time, the Court should, according to McCormack, forbid all executions -- not death sentences -- during the life of such a commission...
Meredith's year on the campus not only affected the faculty, but it shocked the students into a new view of themselves and of their University. The riot gave many of them a nation-wide perspective rare in the South...