Word: bidding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comeback Bid. Presley's backup sound is much fuller now than it used to be, and more electronic; he has a soulful quartet called the Sweet Inspirations, a 35-piece orchestra loud with drums and guitars and a couple of Beatles songs (Yesterday and Hey Jude) plus Ray Charles' What'd I Say. But the newest thing about the new Elvis is social consciousness. Recently released as a single, his version of In the Ghetto, a mawkish ditty about big-city slum life, came close to the top of the pop music charts...
...Presley was nothing but a sexy-looking young truck driver with a guitar. For the last 13 years Parker has kept his charge virtually invisible to live audiences-limiting him to records, movies, one TV special and no interviews. Now is the time, the Colonel senses, for the comeback bid. Teen-agers seem to be tiring of bloodless electronic experimentation and intellectualism, and may be ready to discover for themselves the simplistic, hard-driving Big Beat-as the '50s generation discovered it after the cool complexities of bop and progressive jazz...
...last furlong turned in a stretch run that was more than adequate. He then took his binocular case full of tickets to the hundred dollar cashiers and watched them push a bundle of coarse bills at him--his original investment plus their many happy new companions. He then bid me adieu and strolled to his Merceds in the Aqueduct parking lot and vanished into the Long Island mist...
...plotting to cling to the Blue House, his official mansion in Seoul. Last month the sort of student protests that brought down Rhee in 1960 erupted against Park. After rock-throwing clashes countered by tear gas, the police managed to restore order. Park's sudden announcement of his bid to stay in office may provoke new and more serious troubles. Politicians in the splintered opposition groups, students and intellectuals complain that Park has been in power too long and that his Democratic Republican Party is corrupt. Park himself remains honest, and he has been his country's most...
...accusation was leveled by Senator William Proxmire after Budge ad mitted that he had considered an offer to become president of the six mutual funds managed by Investors Diversified Services, the biggest company in the fund business. Budge eventually declined the $80,000-a-year bid, but only after pondering over it for more than two months. A Senate banking subcommittee has called on him to explain how he could justify negotiating for a job in an industry that the SEC regulates...