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Banded together as the Metropolitan Independent Dodge Dealers Association, the auto retailers claimed to represent $60 million a year in sales, 5% of Dodge's total. They hired a pressagent, and as their lawyer they retained none other than Roy M. Cohn. Among their complaints: in its zeal to sell cars, Dodge has not only franchised too many dealers, but has unfairly gone into competition with established dealers through company-financed outlets...
...Fairness & Equality." For all his civic zeal and his personal flair for the good life on a 200-acre Connecticut estate and at his Florida mansion, Gimbel was more than anything else a shrewd merchant. He was hardly out of the University of Pennsylvania and into the Philadelphia Gimbels store before he was pushing drastic changes on his father and six uncles. The family business had started in Vincennes, Ind., in 1842. The Gimbel brothers built bigger stores in Milwaukee and Philadelphia, but "Bernie" insisted that they move to New York, where the real action was. He picked...
...stimulation the student receives in glimpsing broader fields and interrelations will undoubtedly bring him more eagerly back to those departments with approaches and knowledge which seem most likely to provide answers or extend insight. In the elective courses all, or nearly all, departmentally taught, the zeal of departments for teaching in their own disciplines may be unbridled upon a voluntary, no longer captive audience. In this setting depth and detail will quickly be learned...
...Memorial with the surrounding community. If the problem were not suitably solved, the site might simply become a beautiful -- but hardly used -- memorial once the inevitable flood of tourists ebbed. With Harvard's new building, this distant prospect now seems unrealistic. (Another answer, advanced early and supported with great zeal by Mrs. Kennedy, was to create a lively, variegated commercial district of small shops, restaurants, and book stores that would attract and hold the local population of students, intellectuals and young professionals; one will have to wait for I.M. Pei's final masterplan to see how much this idea...
...experience had been as a marketing man for the American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp. and as a fund raiser for Connecticut's Trinity College, of which he had been president. But he did splendidly as the No. 1 drummer of U.S. everyman's capitalism. Funston's zeal helped raise the number of American shareowners from 6.5 million to 21.5 million. Last week, declaring that "I think I deserve a rest," Keith Funston, 55, announced that he would step down when his term expires next September-or earlier if the exchange finds a successor before then...