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...Swift & Co.'s 68-year-old Chairman Harold Swift agreed with Ryerson: "The only reason I am remaining in the business is because I am the last of six sons of my father. I am still heading the company because the employees want me to." Snapped Zenith Radio's tough, 62-year-old President Eugene MacDonald Jr.: "If [Ryerson] wants to retire, then it's time to retire." Grinning slyly, 93-year-old Meat Packer Oscar Mayer, still running his own company, said: "He should retire. That's not too young-for a banker...
...broadcast reports of the visions to the waiting crowds. Pilgrims contributed heavily for the shrines and other local improvements urged by the "vision children" on "instructions" which the Virgin passed on to them. Packed inns and crowded souvenir shops lifted Heroldsbach's 1,100 inhabitants to a wild zenith of prosperity...
...tavern on the West Side made it possible for fans to stay in Chicago. Customer Syl Szajers, a technician at Zenith Radio, moved a converted TV set of his own design into the Polonia Grove bar. He rigged up a 40-foot mast on the tavern roof, perched a five-element antenna atop it, and pointed it in the direction of Milwaukee. A homemade booster amplifier brought in the signal and the Polonia's customers watched happily as Robinson knocked out his opponent. Said Szajers modestly: "Oh, the picture was a little shaky-but so was Rocky Graziano...
...limpid moon ascends majestically to her zenith, to the wistful baying of the tethered hound; as the last stately ice floe drifts sedately between the burgeoning shores of the historic Charles, then indeed is the voice of the turtle heard in the land...
...Enduring Honor. In postwar Britain, it was George's constitutional duty to approve legislation that created the welfare state and wrested from the crown its brightest single jewel, the Indian Empire. Yet in drab, austere, Socialist Britain, the popularity of the monarchy reached a new zenith. Britons clung to the royal family as the last source of traditional color and ancient ceremony. And the royal family was something much more, though more intangible: the visible embodiment of good form-what the British call "decency." King George's quiet courage, his unostentatious persistence in meeting the everyday duties...