Word: wirts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Ruth Houghton Axe, 67, economist and financier, the only woman to head a mutual fund, who met her writer-economist husband, Emerson Wirt Axe, while she was assistant editor of the Annalist, a financial weekly, in 1932 formed with him E. W. Axe & Co., investment counselors, helped run the firm until his death in 1964, then took the reins herself, directing with boundless energy its four mutual funds and private-investment accounts worth $500 million from a turreted 45-room Westchester County castle; of a heart attack; in Tarrytown...
...safety scare. In the mini-motor field, which its beetles long dominated, VW is getting serious competition from General Motors' Opel and the German Ford. Nordhoff has been fighting the pinch with stepped-up exports and a new, cheaper ($1,121) 41 h.p. Model 1200 that he christened Wirt-schaftskrise Kafer, or "economic crisis beetle." With all that, his successor, Kurt Lotz, 54, will have plenty of problems...
...TROJANS by Wirt Williams. 494 pages. Little, Brown...
...another internecine conflict. National Chairman Ray Bliss, who was put into office to promote unity, is as conscious of the racial problem as the liberals, and has been quietly attempting to solve it. Bliss pushed for the recent appointment of Clarke Reed, a relatively moderate Mississippian, to replace racist Wirt Yerger as state party chairman. "The race issue," Reed is telling G.O.P. candidates, "is dead as a hammer." Bliss also plans to re-establish the National Committee's minorities division, with a Negro as its head...
...most leagues, nine wins out of 46 would be rated an anemic average, but Mississippi has been a one-team league for so long that G.O.P. officials were elated. To Republican State Chairman Wirt Yerger Jr., an efficient organizer who has seeded all of Mississippi's 82 counties with G.O.P. workers, the party's victories represented "a history-making breakthrough, particularly because they were at the grass-roots level." Next year, added Yerger, the G.O.P. will try for all of Mississippi's congressional seats, and will even contest Veteran Senator James O. Eastland's. Said Yerger...