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...modest, retiring man, Maersk McKinney MØller credits his success to two things: his grandfather's star and his father's motto: "No detail is too small. No effort too great...
...boots and other psychedelic cowboy garb that they sometimes look like three times as many people, Cream go beyond oddness into originality. In a genre that is virtually defined by vocal effects alone, their slashing, blues-steeped sound is mainly instrumental; they even use their voices like instruments. Their motto: "Forget the message, forget the lyrics; just play...
...much hope for the Belt foes, since the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads usually approves such state recommendations automatically. The opponents of the Belt, however, vowed to carry the fight to Washington in an effort to get the BPR to over-rule the state's decision. Under the motto "Cam-is NOT a highway," over 100 of them journeyed to Washington in late May to meet with Federal Roads Commissioner Lowell K. Bridwell, Senators Kennedy and Brooke, and their representative, Thomas P. O'Neill (D. Gamb.). They were received in a friendly, but non-committal...
They got the message when she repeatedly piped: "You know where I stand." Another motto was "Boston for Bostonians." Excluded by this definition are civil rights activists, Harvard intellectuals, suburbanites, Yankees, urban-renewal advocates and other purveyors of unsettling influences. Postprimary speculation that a bipartisan coalition including Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy and Republican Governor John Volpe would support White meshed well with Mrs. Hicks' strategy. "A powerful structure is coming into Boston to defeat the people," she warned darkly. "I'll take them...
...conception ten years ago HSA was designed, it seems, primarily to provide work for scholarship students rather than to allow fledgling Big Businessmen to test their mettle. Indeed, "Financing Higher Education through Student Enterprise," is still HSA's motto. But the ease with which funds from one business can be used to aid in capitalizing another, and the willing and open minds with which HSA's student executives and graduate directors greet the idea of creating new businesses have made the place a haven for latter-day entrepreneurs...