Word: buying
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...Freud; to express approval of any television show (except Omnibus, Ed Murrow or Sid Caesar) or of any American movie (except the inexpensive and badly lighted ones, or the solemn westerns, like High Noon); to dislike any foreign films (except those imitating American ones); to believe that you can buy ready-made a good hi-fi set; to wear a non-ivy-league suit ... to prefer American cars, for any reason, to European; to believe that there may be any justice in the official position on Oppenheimer; to defend Western diplomacy on my basis; to invite company to dinner without...
...these proposals and their many variants have one thing in common: the assumption that because the U.S.S.R. refuses to accept reunification of Germany by free elections (as it originally promised), the West must buy a German settlement by surrendering some of its own positions of strength. Sole exception to this rule is the formula advanced by Sir Anthony Eden at Geneva in 1955, and revived in the House of Commons last week by Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd. Its basic provisions: Germany should be reunited by free elections and allowed to determine its own foreign policy (the NATO treaty does...
BIGGEST U.S.-RUSSIAN DEAL in past decade will send $13.5 million worth of Soviet-made benzene to Dow Chemical Co. over next two years. Dow will get the benzene (used in synthetic rubber, cleaners, plastics) for 25? per gal., v. U.S. price of 31?. Company will still buy 80% of its benzene from domestic sources, does not intend to let its Russian imports run over 10% of its supply...
...kitty. National has also agreed to a stock exchange that, if CAB approves, will eventually give Pan Am a big voice in its affairs. In a $16 million swap, the two lines will exchange 400,000 shares of stock, and Pan Am will get a two-year option to buy another 250,000 shares of National stock at $22.50 per share. The effect would be to give National a minor (6%) interest in Pan American, while Pan Am could gain 36% of National if it exercises its option...
Weinberg is less well known as an expert on the stock market. Last May he advised one and all to buy; last week he said that the market was too high: "Some stocks are selling at 50 and 60 times earnings. You just can't do that.'' Weinberg's reputation extends far beyond Wall Street. He has served as a director of so many companies (General Electric, General Foods, Continental Can, Ford, B. F. Goodrich) that he thumbs through a notebook to see on which of 35 boards he still serves. Weinberg has a third field...