Word: williams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year-old abstract expressionist confessed, "I was afraid to come back, but I was wrong." Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum was aglow with 90 De Kooning oils, and idolizing crowds trailed him everywhere. The only problem was that he had forgotten his mother tongue. After U.S. Ambassador William Tyler addressed the opening-night crowd at the Stedelijk in impeccable Dutch, De Kooning admitted: "I could not understand one word of what the ambassador said, but I thanked him for his kind words...
Presumed Dead. William Willis, 75, solitary sailor who, just for the challenge of it, pitted his skill against the sea in small, hand-built boats; after his battered 11½-ft. sloop Little One was found empty 400 miles west of Ireland and 143 days out of Montauk Point, L.I. A seaman since 15, Willis sailed alone in 1954 aboard a balsa raft from Peru to Samoa, and in 1963-64 made a 10,000-mile solo voyage from Peru to Australia. Before his third and last unsuccessful attempt to reach England from America alone, he said: "The greatest challenge...
...counterpunch by Citibank, which reduced its rate only ¼%. Still, almost everybody finally fell in line with Chase-a victory that earned the bank considerable prestige for sound and shrewd judgment. As to why other banks failed to follow the lead again last week, Chase Vice President and Economist William Butler says: "They're chicken. We're not in the habit of being wrong...
Moving Along. For Boeing, which has recently run into some embarrassing design reversals in its supersonic-transport program, the 747 is moving along at a gratifying pace. In the 30 months since Chairman (then president) William M. Allen determined to go ahead with the project, Boeing has raised about $1 billion in financing. It has ordered components from 1,500 prime suppliers, cleared a forest near Everett, constructed a $200 million manufacturing and assembly complex and sold 158 of the $20 million planes to 26 airlines. Along the way, Boeing engineers had to lick serious weight problems that threatened...
...author's portrayal of the first-person narrator, Joey Bertell, the only one in the novel who comes on like the white tornado. He has sung and danced as well as Fred Astaire, is a more cunning producer than David Susskind, more urbane than CBS Board Chairman William Paley, ad nauseam. The rest of the characters are ill-disguised caricatures of CBS executives. They are such a kinky crew that the reader may well wonder how CBS stays in business...