Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The revived efforts against parietals were conducted in cloak-and-dagger secrecy and most committee members had no prior knowledge of what was coming up. No one was willing to comment publicly after the meeting, although Dean Ford said "both sides" raised questions.
The polls closed at 9 p.m. but people were there from 7:30 on. The room was filled with television sets, red, white and blue crepe paper, and balloons. The first results, in at 10:05 p.m., were discouraging: Hampton was ahead by 679 votes. Everybody was nervous, and the...
Rudolph Hurwich, owner of a small packaging outfit in San Francisco, was willing to listen to the visitor in his office one day in 1958. The guest was David Souza, from nearby Hayward, Calif., who had dropped by to try to peddle his invention: a simple, hand-operated labeling device...
Neat Bundle. Hurwich remains more than willing to look at new inventions, which have paid off so handsomely for him in the past. He recently gave financial backing to Product Specialists of Santa Monica, Calif., the developers of a 35-to 55-lb. boat made of polypropylene. For easy transportation...
Crude Circus. With the exception of Leaving the Yellow House, published in Esquire in 1957, the early stories are staged with willing if befuddled ac- tors who are too deeply involved with workaday concerns to do much lofty abstracting. In The Old System (1967) and Mosby's Memoirs (1968...