Word: accounting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LITTLE LEARNING, by Evelyn Waugh. The first part of the British satirist's autobiography is a warm, impressionistic recollection of childhood, a spirited account of high living at Oxford and a miserable tour as a master in a bleak boys' school in Wales-in fact, almost all the ingredients of Waugh's brilliant first novel, Decline and Fall...
More Aid. Often fighting against great odds, government troops gave an uncommonly plucky account of themselves. In the Camau Peninsula, they lured an elite, 700-man Viet Cong battalion into a trap, killed 115 Reds with a loss of only 27 government dead...
...luggage compartment as air freight rather than as expensive excess baggage. In the era of the seven-league sell, salesmen also have to be more alert. Sales managers jet around, too, and more often than not they skim off big and previously inaccessible customers for the home-office account. Then there are the more frequent visits from the top. "Any time the boss is in an area," says Earl C. Janson, manufacturing director of Beckman Instruments, "you're bound to increase the energy level...
...Says Vice President William B. Boscow of Investors Diversified Services, whose Investors Mutual Fund is the nation's largest ($2.6 billion): "We're not trying to make people rich. We're trying to make them comfortable." Mutual Fund managers point out that automakers and oil firms account for most of this year's gain in the Dow-Jones industrials, and that many stocks in the average were selling last week at prices uncomfortably close to their 1964 lows: Allied Chemical at 52½ v. a 1964 low of 51⅛, Alcoa...
With Savio's emergence as chief spokesman for the FSM, two schools of thought have developed to account for him. To his friends--and there are many--he is a brave and honest spokesman who seeks simply to extend First Amendment freedoms to the Berkeley campus. To his enemies--and there are many--he is a party-line Marxist revolutionary, bent on destroying the University of California. The first view is inadequate; the second is simply wrong...