Word: briskness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This week Comsat will offer another 5,000,000 shares, also at $20, to the public. Because of brisk demand, brokers will limit purchases by individual customers to 50 shares or less, and then the shares will be traded on the New York Stock Exchange. The public will elect six directors. But small shareholders seldom take the initiative to put up a slate; the public directors of Comsat Corp. will probably be nominated by the Government-appointed organizers of Comsat. It thus looks as if the commanding voices in the new space communications company will belong to President Johnson...
Solving the problem of hermeneutic -meaning the theory of interpretation -is a game that Americans can play too. In the jet age, sages from Basle and Marburg can breeze in to enlighten their U.S. colleagues at a brisk three-day seminar, and theology has become increasingly international. One proof is a new book called The New Hermeneutic (Harper & Row; $5), the second in a series devoted to a dialogue between Continental and American theologians on major religious issues. Edited by James M. Robinson and John B. Cobb Jr. of the Southern California School of Theology, the book contains essays...
HELLO DOLLY! Cast as a matchmaker, Carol Channing dangles her gay, carrot-topped self in front of a stuffy moneybags (David Burns) who is slow off the mark. Gower Champion's dancers set a brisk pace for the chase...
...purpose: he figures he can put her in his sideshow and his fortune will be made. He does, he prospers, then-alas-she gets pregnant. Worse yet, she dies in childbirth. But all is not lost. He has the corpse embalmed, puts it on show, and trade is as brisk as ever...
...owners without garage space will have to seek private lots or park in the Business School lot, a brisk twelve minutes away via the Weeks Bridge. "No one is happy with the solution," Jay Gubser of Hunneman and Co., the renting agent, said. "But five hundred cars would make on-street parking impossible...