Word: clips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...secure prison" in all of Britain, concluded a government committee headed by former First Lord of the Admiralty Earl Mountbatten. And Britain's prison ers seem determined to prove Mountbatten right. In the two weeks since the report was published, convicts have been crashing out at an embarrassing clip. At least 29 have taken what the British press ironically calls "Christmas leave...
...FORTUNE COOKIE. As a TV cameraman who is mildly clipped while covering a football game, Jack Lemmon follows the zany signals called by his grasping brother-in-law Walter Matthau, a two-bit shyster with dreams of becoming a big-time chiseler. Nicknamed "Whiplash Willie," the illegal eagle stops at almost nothing to clip an insurance company of $1,000,000 in this comely comedy directed by Billy Wilder...
...Saxon's expansionist policies but consolidate more than innovate. Camp promises "no drastic changes" immediately, but expects to push training programs for bank examiners, expand automation in banking, strengthen the supervision of foreign banks, and continue Saxon's chartering and merger designs, though at a reduced clip. Merely to digest what Saxon bit off will keep Camp fully occupied. His office is involved in six antitrust suits concerning bank mergers. The trend in the courts so far has been to support the Comptroller against the Attorney General, ruling for mergers that promote efficiency even if they require concentration...
...Right Questions. More instructive than the files, which he devours at a 1,000-words-a-minute clip, have been his skull sessions within the department. Applying the Socratic approach, which he learned as a law professor at Yale and the University of Chicago,' Katzenbach stirs up debate and, in the words of one participant, "asks the right questions and plenty of them...
...first five weeks after its publication, the Random House Dictionary of the English Language (TIME, Sept. 30) sold more than 250,000 copies, began to appear on the bestseller lists, and is still going at a lively clip. At a time when the bestsellers tend to be largely composed of sexy stuff, this is indeed a phenomenal showing...