Word: account
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...price increases rescinded has never been fully explained. The predictable White House rejoinder is that the President doesn't want to lose the support of the business community. But President Kennedy, in greater need of additional support than Johnson has ever been, did not suppress a blow-by-blow account of his 1962 fight with Roger Blough over steel prices...
...investor in a high-tax bracket. The current struggle in Wall Street's market is not between bulls and bears, but between stocks and bonds. Calling some important turns are the faceless but formidable institutions-mutual funds, pension and profit-sharing funds, insurance companies and banks -which account for about 31% of all trading on the major exchanges. Now they are socking more and more of their millions into the high-yield, no-risk bonds. In the past four months, Pittsburgh's Federated Growth Fund has reduced the proportion of stocks in its portfolio from...
Hard Line. The collision shattered what hope there was that the ten industrial nations, which account for 70% of global trade, could avoid a stalemate on the mechanics of averting a clearly threatening crisis a few years hence. At De Gaulle's personal order, France not only returned to its hard line of a year ago that the only sensible basis for a world money system was gold-a view shared almost nowhere else-but now also insisted that any plan for world monetary reform should wait until the U.S. brought its inflationary trend under control and corrected...
...biographer (Life of Jesus), political polemicist and poet, first became aware of Charles de Gaulle during the long night of German occupation. Unlike many of his countrymen, Mauriac has kept his vision of De Gaulle shining ever since. In this odd book-neither a biography nor a wholly accurate account of De Gaulle's politics but a kind of personal political devotional-Mauriac, 80, tries to explain just what it is about De Gaulle that commands his fealty. He attests that he is not obsessed with De Gaulle, but, unhappily, this does not prove to be true: Mau-riac...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, former professor of Hhistory has won this year's National Book Award in History and Biography for A Thousand Days, his account of the Kennedy Administration...