Word: asset
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp contrast to Johnson, Nixon's running mate, Henry Cabot Lodge, has proved to be an underrated asset because of the favorable TV image he has projected over the years, talking back to the Russians in U.N. debates. A recent Gallup poll, designed to measure something called the "enthusiasm quotient." found that 45% of the people polled were "highly favorable" to Lodge, and only 30% felt that way about Johnson...
Roitschwantz is a poor Jewish tailor in Homel, a deeply confused little town in Russia during the confusing early years of the Revolution. His only asset is an epic garrulity and a wild Talmudic talent for splitting the wrong hair. His only crime is. he confesses, "the fact that I am alive"-although he explains in a frenzied bout of surrealist logic that he is not exactly responsible for that. Reading his fabulous and farcical misadventures is an experience like being cornered by a compulsive talker whose merciless spate of words first glazes the eye until a thread of rewarding...
...Republican Convention and on the position of Richard Nixon in the coming campaign. Nixon's bold stroke brought a burst of drama into a convention that had seemed doomed to dullness, and it lent drama to the appearance before the convention this week of that exclusive Republican asset, the President of the U.S., whose total record during his two terms in office will, despite Nixon's pilgrimage to New York, constitute the core of the case that the Republican Party will put before the voters between...
...eyed Princess Radziwill, 27, third wife of a Polish nobleman turned London businessman. The Princess, married once before, is the former Lee Bouvier, and like her equally attractive sister, Jackie Bouvier Kennedy, is now expecting her second child. Rhapsodized Vogue: "Her clothes-life starts with one enchanting, instantly-visible asset: her beauty - dark-haired, with widely spaced dark-brown eyes and a serene, oval face . . . She seldom wears hats, but when she does she likes them large-brimmed and fem inine, though never fussy. If she has a fashion-signature, it is simplicity." . . . Reminding televiewers that the last echo...
Each of these companies has one prime asset: inventive brains. The ability to develop new ideas and products is more prized today than such old measuring rods as a stock's book value. To Sherman Fairchild, the reasons for buying growth make good sense. When he decided to buy stock in Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co., which was a growth stock ten years ago and still is, he called up the Wall Street office that he set up just for investment purposes. "They asked me if I didn't want to see the balance sheets of the company," says...