Word: belled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scarcely 48 hours apart. Benito Mussolini perished on April 28, 1945, executed by a Communist partisan as he tried to flee Italy. Adolf Hitler died in Berlin on April 30, apparently by swallowing a cyanide capsule. On the double anniversary, TIME's Benjamin Cate in Bonn and James Bell in Rome examine the ways in which the two are remembered...
...idol of America's young, Lyndon Johnson nonetheless seems to have a sneaking sympathy for some of their modes. He has not yet taken to bell-bottoms or lovebeads, but he did show up at the Middleburg Hunt meet in Virginia wearing his curly silver-gray locks in what could only be described as a Woodstock...
Inspired, perhaps, by the recent activities of Attorney General John Mitchell's wife Martha, Mrs. John Bell Williams went before the TV cameras in Jackson, Miss., to solicit funds for mental-health programs. "As wife of your Governor," she began, "I am constantly aware of the need for this help...
...Bell put an 8¾% interest rate on its debentures, which had the immediate effect of pressing up other rates in the bond market by as much as one-quarter of 1%. As a result, corporate and municipal borrowers are likely to pay more for money in the bond market in the weeks ahead. Not even Bell's banker, Morgan Stanley, was sure that the 8¾% rate on such a large issue would attract enough investors. As a result, the company sweetened the package...
...offer to its 3,140,000 shareholders only last week, and Wall Street will not know for some time just how successful the entire package was. Normally, A.T. & T. shareholders take up about half of any new issue offered to them. Until the first $1.6 billion is paid to Bell in early June, the mammoth issue will hang over both the bond and stock markets and will probably serve as a negative force on prices...