Word: solness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Route Toward the Top. The route toward the top was plotted by Interstate's $151,250-a-year president, Sol W. Cantor, now 56. A 1932 law-school graduate (St. John's University), Cantor forsook the bar for the bargain basement as soon as he left the class room; he took a $12-a-week buyer's job at Interstate instead of a position in a law firm that would have paid him $10. At the time, Interstate, which had been formed by a 1928 merger of three Midwest department-store chains, was having a rough time...
Murder, rape and bribery are all crimes that everyone understands; what is meant by conspiracy is less obvious. 'Lately, this age-old crime has become one that district attorneys find themselves prosecuting in a variety of important cases. Conspiracy charges have helped convict such diverse defendants as Billie Sol Estes, the accused killers of the three Mississippi civil rights workers, and price-fixing General Electric executives...
Some older observers are disquieted by such a torrent of activities. Impresario Sol Hurok, 79, shakes his head and says: "I think any artist should concentrate on one thing at a time. There is an old Russian saying: 'With one bottom, you can't be at two weddings.' " And Herbert von Karajan, 59, one of the last conductors bred in the old gradual apprenticeship, commented on the new conductors to a friend recently: "I'm afraid they jumped from elementary school to the university without going through the intervening stage of high school"-implying that...
...first time they (the Central Americans) have found that by joining together they have a clout, that they can make an impact," Sol M. Linowitz, U.S. representative to the OAS, said. "They are holding fast to regional loyalty...
...Though all of them are over the usual draft cutoff age of 26. In addition, Hinckle is blind in one eye, Assistant Managing Editor Sol Stern has a medical deferment, and Art Director Dugald Stermer is married and a father...