Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio-television announcer's license. In the absence of a baby sitter, the anxious mother brought along her baby daughter Janette as well. During the interview, the overtrained Luis muffed some of the questions; but his precocious, farina-fed sister belted out the answers in such clear, bell-like show-biz tones that the licensing board turned from the eleven-year-old Luis and licensed Janette, making her-at the age of two-one of the world's youngest TV pitchwomen...
...stock market is little more than a numbers game of profits and dividends. In a sampling of 2,000 U.S. stockholders, the organization discovered that 51% did not know a single product made by any company in which they owned stock. Another 6% guessed-and guessed wrong, e.g., credited Bell & Howell with making aircraft, General Motors with gasoline, and Swift with trucks. Some 55% could not name a single president of the companies they invested in, although 82% claimed to have read the annual reports of every firm in their portfolios...
...task of drafting a unifying platform, Nixon tapped as chairman of the ic>3-member Platform Committee a bright young nonpolitician: Charles H. Percy, 40, sometime boy wonder who became president of Chicago's Bell & Howell Co. (cameras) at 29, increased its sales eightfold and its profits elevenfold in a decade. Loyal to Nixon but leaning toward Rockefeller's liberal brand of Republicanism, "Chuck" Percy had to placate Rockefeller without angering the Old Guard, point forward into the 19605 without repudiating the Eisenhower Administration record of the 19505. Percy and Nixon hoped to accomplish all that with a brief platform...
...Taylor's Peter Ibbetson. At its premiere in 1931, it won 36 curtain calls, ran for four seasons. After that, Ibbetson disappeared from the Met's repertory, for no very clear reason. Says Composer Taylor: "After all, I can't go ring Mr. Bing's bell and say, 'Where's my opera?' " Last week, after a quarter-century, his opera was back-not at the Met but at New York's enterprising Empire State Festival...
WHEN the fire bell rings, Coleman nimbly dodges between frightened investors. Even when the overall trend of the market is down, there are momentary rallies that he can profit by. He can buy a stock one minute and sell it for a half-point profit the next. He often is "long" (buying a stock for a rise) in one stock while "short" (selling for a fall) in another. Coleman actually profited in the Cardiac Break, just as he did in the market's crash in 1929. "We were both long and short. To survive...