Word: name
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lines, and is, to U.S. census takers, a "functional illiterate." One such is Nara High, 64. of Durham, N.C. Instead of going to school, she went to work at eight in a textile mill, now lives alone in retirement, mostly watching television. "Oh, I would love to write my name," says she. "It would mean so much...
...hard candy. They shuttle thousands of tourists each summer in their two boats. Morning Star and Lollipop, to visit the red-roofed monastery. And they help keep themselves self-supporting by manufacturing a perfume out of lavender, verbena and gorse grown on the island. The scent's unmonkish name: Sybil-for top-rank Irish Couturiere Sybil Connolly, who distributes it in specially made Waterford glass bottles...
Born. To William Francis Quinn, 40, Governor of Hawaii, and Nancy Ellen Witbeck Quinn, 40: their seventh child, fifth son; in Honolulu. Name: Gregory Anthony. Weight...
CHICK ALLYN likes to say that his company's name is listed in the telephone book of every major city in the free world. N.C.R.'s lines of commerce spread out from Dayton, Ohio to seven plants and 500 offices in the U.S., and then out to an overseas empire on which the sun never sets: nine major plants strung from Europe to the Far East, sales offices in 121 nations. Sales were a fat $420 million in 1959, with an estimated profit of $18.9 million, best in N.C.R.'s 77-year history...
...only one of his worries; his pay was sure to be docked for a broken flashlight, he later recalled thinking, and his uniform was hopelessly soiled -that could mean explanations to . the sergeant. Snarling directions, Oakes guided the Davies family, one by one, to safety. "Never mind my name," he snapped. "If you've anything to say about me, I'm P.C. 369 B." Cockney Courage. What a grateful family had to say about its rescuer was glowing enough to provide Oakes-to his immense surprise-with Britain's coveted civilian award, the George Medal...