Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This eccentric English comedy, all tea-cozy quirks and idiosyncrasy like a thousand others, boasts one sterling asset in Georgy herself, played by 23-year-old Lynn Redgrave, daughter of Sir Michael and sister of Vanessa. Tackling a made-to-measure role, Actress Redgrave shows that she has inherited a fair share of the family talent along with the lack-looks of a backstairs maid. As Georgy she is dumpy, vaguely prognathous, warm and plain as a suet pudding. Her figure is so nondescript that she paws through heaps of female finery with the defeatist air of a girl attempting...
Botswana's strongest asset is its first president, Sir Seretse Khama, 45, a burly, blueblooded Oxonian who has become one of Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...
Panic Peddlers. After the constitutional issue, the most powerful surface argument concerns the pocketbook. "This is largely an economic issue," says Republican Craig Hosmer of California, who opposed Title IV. "A home is the only major asset most people have. Whether it is a fact or not, people fear that when Negroes move in, property values go down...
This spring, Hughes stunned everybody by cashing in his chips-all 6,584,937 shares of TWA, for $546 million, six times his original $90 million investment. Still, Tillinghast has insisted that the suit against Hughes remain alive. "It's a corporate asset," says TWA's General Counsel Melvin Milligan...
...Nikita Khrushchev's colossal mistakes. In 1958 he decreed that high school students must work two days a week in factories, which meant adding an eleventh year to the curriculum. Factory managers complained that the students were a liability not an asset. So two years ago, Russia scrapped the system and went back to the old ten-year plan-with the result that this spring not one but two grades reached graduation...