Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feats of California's kooky clay molders are even beginning to be idolized abroad. Los Angeles' Kenneth Price, 33, last month displayed six tiny, ovoid forms at London's Kasmin gallery that won raves even from critics who did not know quite what to call them. "It seems impossible to describe them without vulgarizing them," said the Manchester Guardian. "They could be puddings, breasts, biological specimens-but they could also be offerings to some ultrasophisticated deity." Trying to read the riddle of his abstract, Shmoo-shaped objects is really a waste of time and effort, Price says...
...first result of the 51% discount rate, highest since the 6% rate posted by the New York Reserve Bank for three months in 1929, was a rush by commercial banks to lift their minimum lending rate from 6% to a record 61% annual interest. That "prime rate," as bankers call it, applies to borrowing by their bluest-chip corporate customers. Other interest rates throughout the economy scale upward from that level. Bankers predicted that loans will now grow costly enough to crimp small businessmen, capital-goods industries and local government construction projects. Worst hit, as usual, will be new housing...
...vast majority of U.S. corporations give their duty-bound employees quite a bit less, perhaps because until very recently the possibility of call-ups hardly seemed to be on anyone's mind. In their negotiations with the auto companies last fall, the United Auto Workers won a differential-pay provision -but only for ten days a year, to cover summer camp or "riot duty...
...roar of the grease paint. Candidates have learned that the important thing is not so much what they say but that they say something that will get them on the evening news. "Our leaders," says Columbia University President Grayson Kirk, "are expected to appear almost on call before the television cameras, to hold innumerable press conferences, and to share their thoughts, even if they may be fragmentary and half-formed, with everyone in the country. No leader can long survive such ordeals and emerge from them unscathed...
...Afro's call for the rally, scheduled to begin at 1 p.m. in front of Mem Church, said in part, "On April 24 black students of Boston University UMOJA sat-in in an administration building and closed it down for the whole day. Their grievances and demands were similar to Afro...