Word: ballroom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grand jury in Denver last week concluded that ballroom-dance studios in the area are guilty of "immoral, illegal and bloodsucking" tactics in the sale of huge lesson contracts to students. Dance-studio personnel, said the grand jury indignantly, are often "buzzards" who "employed very unethical means of inducing persons to enroll in dance classes...
Other brokers laid the blame for the sudden jumps and dips at the dancing feet of Nicolas Darvas, of the ballroom team of Darvas and Julia (TIME, May 15, 1959). His book, How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, published five weeks ago, has already sold more than 100,000 copies. A key part of Darvas' system is the use of the "stop-loss order"; e.g., an investor with a stock selling at 40 instructs his broker to sell if the price dips below 38 to limit his loss. The catch is that if the only...
...joint caucus of the Texas and Massachusetts delegations and a debate on major issues. Kennedy declined to mix the two and assumed that the debate was off, but Lyndon and his boys, as well as a regiment of newsmen and TV contingents, crowded into the Biltmore's ballroom for what was now billed as something like the Lincoln-Douglas debates. While the crowd waited and Lyndon orated, Jack sat tight in his room. At last South Carolina's Governor Fritz Hollings phoned. "You're going down to that debate, aren't you?" he asked. No, said...
Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 62, long abask in U.S. footlights, nervously made an entrance in the ballroom of London's Buckingham Palace. Quivering with stage fright, she was invested by Queen Elizabeth II with the insignia of a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Tremoloed Dame Judith in her best Medea style: "The hardest role I've ever had to play...
...scene was set in the unfinished grand ballroom of what was to have been the Belgian Governor's new official residence. Now it was the debating hall of the Congo's first Parliament. A grey wastebasket was pressed into service as the voting urn. Amid the happy hubbub, a black soldier loped down the aisle, crying, "Mr. President of the Provisional Assembly, he has arrived!" As the President strode briskly to his seat, his Belgian adviser whispered, "Have you got your hammer...