Word: wis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loss-its first since 1957. Finally, for all of Abernathy's cigar-chomping ebullience, sales of "Roy's Cars," as the new models are called at A.M.C., have been so disappointing as to force a ten-day shutdown of plants in Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis...
...number of low-seniority workers altogether. Chrysler meanwhile shut down its St. Louis assembly plant for a week. Beleaguered American Motors, which suffered a 17.4% sales loss last year and is off to a slow start with its restyled 1967 models, this week will close its Milwaukee and Kenosha, Wis., plants for ten days, after that will lay off 4,100 workers...
...fact, as Harvard Sociologist Seymour Lipset observes, they are "caught up in the myth that J.F.K. was a radical President, and would have done all sorts of things, bypassing the older generation." By contrast, the Now People almost universally mock Lyndon Johnson -as Leonard laquinta, 22, of Kenosha, Wis., puts it, for his "bluffs, come-on gimmicks and intellectual dishonesty...
Shimmering Ancestor. Their song bag includes a wealth of old ballads, reels, ditties, jigs and riddle songs, many of which Beers learned at the knee of his grandfather-onetime champion fiddler of North Freedom, Wis.-who gave him his "concert grand" fiddle with a snake rattle inside ("to make it sound good"). In one demonstration song, Beers carves a whistle out of a twig and then plays a tweeting lullaby; in other numbers, Evelyne beats out a counter rhythm on the fiddle strings with spears of buffalo grass or "fiddlesticks." Many of the songs reflect the lore and rough-hewn...
...oldest of five children of Norwegian immigrants who settled in Stoughton, Wis., Romnes is so soft-spoken and persuasive an executive that colleagues sometimes refer to him as "the Mild Viking." But the Viking has a firm hand when necessary, and he may need it as he steers A.T. & T. through some rough sailing. Through 23 subsidiary companies, A.T. & T. controls 85% of all U.S. telephone communications, most long-distance operations, and an increasing share of the fast-growing data-transmission business. It remains a private monopoly largely because of rate accommodations with the Federal Communications Commission and with...