Word: brasses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President, that Thursday was quite a day. He chatted briefly with West Virginia's Jo Ann Odum, 19, who will soon represent the U.S. in the Miss World Pageant. He lunched-after several postponements-with the brass of Advise and Consent, being filmed in Washington (see SHOW BUSINESS). Later, he received a delegation from a businessmen's group headed by U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough. Once officially attached to the Department of Commerce with the title of Business Advisory Council, the group had broken away last summer when Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges tried to curb its authority. Ever...
...Kipling's cat. With arrogant contempt for trends, Gump's eight years ago sold its only two branch stores (in Honolulu and Carmel, Calif.), and the nearest thing to a loss leader a Gump's customer can expect to find is a pair of pewter and brass candlesticks reduced from $250 to $125. Yet in a little more than a decade, Gump's sales have almost doubled, last year approached $4,000,000, with profits before taxes running a comfortable 6% of gross...
With even the walls sounding with brass, there will be no hiding place down here, or anywhere, and the stereo makers will be content...
...face. Joào ("Jango") Goulart stood before a joint session of Brazil's Congress one evening last week to be inaugurated as President of Brazil. By compromise and adroit political maneuvering, the man considered a demagogue and dangerous leftist by Brazil's conservative military brass was finally installed as the nation's chief executive. His legal powers were sharply limited under a constitutional amendment changing the government from a presidential to a parliamentary system. How much actual power he might wield depended on how well he got on with his Prime Minister and with Brazil...
Surrounding himself with high, authentic brass, Zanuck cocks an Ikelike ear and listens to the advice of such aides as French General Pierre Koenig, German Admiral Friedrich Ruge (Rommel's sometime naval attache), and dozens of American officers. Drawing on his resources, Darryl Zanuck has also called in 22 ships from the U.S. Sixth Fleet, the ist Airborne Battle Group of the U.S. 5°5th Infantry, and the ist Battle Group of the U.S. 6th Infantry (authorized by the Department of Defense). A direct telephone line to the Army groups' headquarters in Germany is kept open...