Word: bolds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brief & Bold. Will Strunk wrote a book ("The little book," he liked to say) called The Elements of Style-43 privately printed pages that constituted his magnificent attempt to prune the jungle of English rhetoric and replant it on the head of a pin. Until White recently got hold of one of the Cornell library's two surviving copies, he had not laid eyes on the book in 38 years. Now, thanks to White, the supply has been replenished (Macmillan; $2.50) with a fond testimonial by White: "From every page there peers out at me the puckish face...
...trimming Democratic plans to fit political facts of life-such as Dwight Eisenhower's popularity, his veto weapon, and the appeal of his balanced-budget goal to the U.S.'s current conservative temper. Pennsylvania Democrat Joseph S. Clark, who sounded a call for a lot of bold new spending programs after the Democratic victory last November, stood up in the Senate and denounced the Johnson approach as an effort to "block that veto" by turning out "legislation which renounces or blurs or fuzzes or muddies the Democratic Party platform, policies and program. 'Block that veto...
...tight French defenses on the Morice Line had been partially flooded, and the rebels had slipped through them the day before from a Tunisian base camp, carrying money and supplies to reinforce rebels hiding in Algeria's Kabylie Mountains. They obviously hoped, by a bold stroke, to counter the growing impression (TIME, June 22) that the tide had turned against them in Algeria. But at dawn a French armored-car patrol spotted the rebels, and within an hour more than 3,000 French troops had encircled the tiny orange grove...
...Post's bold policy has brought big success-at least in New Guinean terms. Today the company pays a 10% dividend to investors, has assets of $270,000. Last week it let a $22,500 contract for a new brick headquarters. In Port Moresby's bureaucratic circles, the Post may not be as popular as it is among jungle tobacco hounds, but the saucy voice of New Guinea is never ignored. Confessed one Port Moresby official, in the kind of tribute that Glover, Eskell and Stephens set up shop in New Guinea to earn: "The Post keeps...
Helping the bull markets is the fact that governments publicly encourage share ownership by the little man. The West German government has begun to sell shares of state-held companies to middle-class investors in a bold step toward denationalization (TiME. April 13). But markets are so thin that a little buying can send a stock to giddy heights. Four-fifths of West German corporate stock, for example, are locked in institutional portfolios. Companies are reluctant to float more because of heavy taxes. Daimler-Benz has 93% of its stock in the hands of institutions and other companies...