Word: woo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thing works out. I'll get together with Bud and make a deal. We'll wield our considerable influence with Nathan Pasey, who runs the place, Dean Watson, who helps him, and Dolph Samborski, who keeps the jocks in line. Bud, with his impressive silver tongue, will woo Mr. Taylor. Mr. Winship, and Fran Rosa, who basically run the Globe...
...woman grabs my arm. "The Red Guard," she says, and leads me away. "This is not a good place to be. I knew there would be trouble. All of Chinatown is divided." Divided? "Yes." We walk up the hill toward Grant Avenue. A young Chinese with long hair, George Woo, joins us. The year before, he helped start a radical youth movement called Wah Ching in Chinatown...
High-Priced Toys. Although the company is called "Winnebago-a-Grow-Grow" by its corn-country boosters, its success did not come easily. The Forest City Development Committee, appointed by the town to woo industry, raised $50,000 by selling stock locally. With those funds, the committee refurbished an old pumpkin cannery and began making so-called camper coaches: portable dwellings that can be mounted on pickup trucks. The venture failed, and the factory was forced to close. Finally, John K. Hanson, a Forest City furniture-store owner, bought up the stock at a reduced price and reopened the plant...
...First City National Bank, Houston's largest, discovered some disquieting statistics. The average age of its depositors was well over 50, compared with a citywide average of only 27.8 years. Convinced that an aging clientele meant future trouble in attracting deposits, the bank's officers decided to woo young customers with some remarkably unbankerlike services. Accordingly, the bank last spring started a "Young Houstonian Club" for young people who opened checking accounts. Already that organization is demonstrating that banking can shed its stodgy image and remain successful...
Following his own request that "all my friends of the present and of the past would get together in a little while for a fiesta--a la Bauhaus, " woo of those close friends gathered at the offices of Architects Collaborative in Cambridge yesterday afternoon. The man they met to remember--for they did not meet "To commemorate" and certainly not "to mourn"--was Walter A. Gropius, head of the Department of Architecture at the Graduate School of Design from...