Word: benefited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to thank TIME for recommending my new book [June 7] by uniquely demonstrating the need for it among professional opinion-molders. Your writer's enthusiasm for negativism makes him a perfect example of the individual who can benefit most from the book...
...Washington and Wall Street regarded the moves as clearly discriminatory. But most investors and government officials were inclined to wait and see how much they hurt and how disheartening the hurt would turn out to be. Considering the continuing U.S. deficit in international payments, there could conceivably be a benefit in having at least a few U.S. dollars turned back at the border. Yet that effect might be offset by the new sales tax on building materials, which could seriously hinder U.S. export sales to Canada...
...officials in Saigon fear that the mounting religious strife can only benefit the Viet Cong by dividing the people and the predominantly Buddhist army just as the government forces are beginning to gain a military advantage over the Reds. Diem made some conciliatory gestures; but with the situation fast deteriorating, they might prove not to be enough. He ordered the removal of the barricades in Hue and in a nationwide radio broadcast admitted that some of his aides had not shown "sufficient understanding and sensitivity" in dealing with the crisis...
...York harbor sailed Holland-America's liner Rotterdam, carrying nearly 700 notables on a sort of floating crap game to benefit the American Cancer Society. With tickets sold at $125 to $750 apiece-and "gamblers" paid off in donated minks, diamonds, motor scooters and other goodies-the take was upwards of $123,000. But all-at-sea was the place to be for such socialites as Governor and Mrs. Rockefeller and the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (see THE NATION). An eye-catcher even in that company was svelte Shipmate Gloria Lee Barrie, 35, whose husband George, 49, president...
Before dinner the Dunster Dunces entertained, singing such songs as "I've got tears in my eyes from lying on my back in bed when I'm crying over you." After dinner a painting was auctioned off for the benefit of the Class Gift fund...