Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combination. By bringing high-card valuation more into line with play-of-the-cards realities, Goren saved bridge players countless set contracts, especially at no trump. Another virtue of Goren's method was that it supplied a practical way of taking distribution into account: on suit bids (but not on no-trump) it adds one point for a doubleton, two for a singleton, three for a void...
...Fitzgerald, a onetime Wayne County (Detroit) crime-busting prosecutor, onetime Michigan Democratic national committeeman, onetime defeated candidate for lieutenant governor (who got a $43,000 Teamster donation to his campaign chest). When the Internal Revenue Service bird-dogged Hoffa's tax returns, Fitzgerald suggested that Jimmy's accountant "get rid of" Hoffa's net-worth statement. When a Washington jury panel was called for Hoffa's bribery trial (TIME, July 29, 1957), Fitzgerald hired an investigator to investigate the jurors. Similarly, while the McClellan committee checked on Hoffa, Fitzgerald hired a private eye to ogle three...
...Horizon's backers, using Heritage profits, have spent more than $370,000 in promotion, mailed more than 3,000,000 brochures to English teachers, art-book buyers, charge-account customers at quality department stores, subscribers to the Book-of-the-Month Club, Heritage, the Saturday Review and Harper's, and a list broker's miscellaneous collection of 500,000 "cultured individuals." The result: before publication, Horizon said it had 145,000 takers (for a press run of 225,000 copies) at $15 for the year's six issues, $3 less than the regular subscription price. Horizon...
...nation's expense-account economy, nobody is anybody unless he can say "Charge it." Thus, the credit card has risen as a new symbol of status that enables one to rent a plane or boat or car, give parties in nightclubs, even go on a full-blown safari in Africa without putting down a penny. For businessmen it also provides a convenient record of all expenses to show the Internal Revenue Service. Last week the credit-card game provided businessmen with the spectacle of being wooed and fought over by a handful of companies trying to dominate the business...
...contrast, he leaves these "resurrected" to describe a nearby cemetery where 8.000 mummies are on view, dating from the 16th century to as late as 1920, and including priests, professors, young virgins, even "an American consul with a big black mustache." The book is at its best in an account of how New York City's Mayor Vincent ("Mr. Impy") Impellitteri returned to his native village in 1951. With no blasphemous intent, Levi describes the visit in the way some of the simpler Sicilians might have seen it-as the story of the Saviour repeated in modern form...