Word: axing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story unfolds in flashbacks. First, Shirley's mother (Margaret Dumont, that grand battle-axe of Marx Brothers fame) warns her about the high cost of scruples. But having refused to wed Dean Martin because he is a tycoon, Shirley marries Dick Van Dyke, a philosophical hardware merchant who has exactly what she wants - nothing. "Our life together was just like an old silent movie," says Shirley. Which cues in some grainy black-and-white footage -a slapstick idyl with speeded-up action. The idyl jerks to a stop when Van Dyke throws away his Thoreau and proceeds to make...
Died. Emerson Wirt Axe, 69, Wall Street securities analyst, manager of the Axe-Houghton group of five mutual funds (combined assets: $300 million), a onetime champion marksman, fencing, judo and chess expert (he once played six simultaneous games blindfolded in an exhibition), who predicted the 1929 crash six weeks in advance as well as the turnabout in July 1932, ran the business from a 40-room turreted castle in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y.; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...N.C.A.A. finals in Kansas City, the play was as cold and ruthless as a ragged axe. U.C.L.A.'s Walt Hazzard, a jumping Jack who chopped through all Duke's beanstalks, carried a steely team to its 30th consecutive victory, beating Duke 98-83. It was the Bruins' first national championship, and highest score ever in an N.C.A.A. final...
...cameras, with a smile. But the smile faded quickly as Kierans presented his letter, which began, "The financial capitals of the world have just about had enough from Canada." In effect, the letter called the tax discriminatory, prohibitive and unworkable-"complete and utter nonsense." It was, he continued, "an axe to murder the record of trust and confidence that has grown up over the years." As Kierans talked to Gordon, his Montreal office distributed 1,200 copies of the letter in English, and another 600 in French, to every company president with shares listed on the exchanges and to every...
...Barbara Axe seemed faintly disappointed that the babies were all girls. But she had another kind of compensation. Around Lima, scarcely one out of 20 mothers watches the birth of her own children, but she had combined her curiosity with her condition to hit a 50 million-to-1 shot and see the delivery of her own quadruplets...