Word: chipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there, as he puts it, because "they give a damn." The group includes 24 men, a high percentage for an elementary school. Although the enrollment is predominantly Negro, 33 teachers are white. Thirty are under 25. Many are recent graduates of Columbia, Yale, Chicago, and other blue-chip colleges. Belittling his own plain-cut clothes, Principal Lee, a Chinese American, says: "I'm a bum-but most of my teachers wear Brooks Brothers suits...
Building on Blue Chips. His mode of departure reflected his belief in calm continuity. Well aware that ad agencies often slow down when their bosses grow old and linger too long, Strouse began planning his own retirement three years ago. He tapped Dan Seymour, a one time soap-opera actor who revitalized J. Walter's television department, to become president. Now Seymour takes full charge of a shop that, thanks to Strouse, is not about to lose its No. 1 ranking. Billings have more than doubled since Strouse was named president in 1955, and currently exceed $600 million. With...
...Bertha Hecht, a 66-year-old widow in San Mateo, Calif., turned over her inherited portfolio of blue-chip stocks worth $533,161 to a representative of Wall Street's venerable Harris, Upham & Co. Seven years later, she found her fortune cut in half. She is still fighting to recoup her losses...
...fourth week in a row of steady losses that have erased more than half of the Dow's spring gains. From a peak of 923.72 on July 15, the average has dropped 54.07 points, reflecting a $7 billion loss in the market value of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks. Most other market indicators show remarkably similar declines...
...loss to explain." Sidey shows how deeply the hard times in the Texas hill country affected Lyndon Johnson, how he maintains the conviction that "the world is simply Johnson City in megatons." Sidey also describes how Johnson's struggle for wealth and power left him with an "incipient chip on the shoulder," how his laudable legislative career shaped-and in some ways misshaped-his presidency...