Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anti-Prohibitionist (illegal beer and hooch) Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 59, in stir since 1933 for the Chicago snatch of Con Man John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, drew closer to freedom. Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton cut Touhy's 99-year stretch to 72 years, thus making Terrible eligible for springing in August...
...with the Parisian night crisscrossed by searchlights and rocked by the thud of primitive bombs. Author Troyat, Russian-born but an adoptive Frenchman since his youth, writes out of a passionate love of France. His Pierre and Amelie in their simplicity and capacity for goodness seem closer to the gentle peasant folk of Tolstoy than the rapacious villagers of Balzac. Yet even Amelie loses innocence as the book progresses: she learns how to connive with petty officialdom so that she can visit Pierre in the forward areas; she discovers her own frailty in turning away the love of a young...
Hestnes, who inaugurated the HYRC State House Committee, says his main objective will be to bring the club into closer contact with the Massachusetts G.O.P...
Even in minute quantities, triiodothyronine made a marked difference in 14 patients (one showed no response, and nine others showed slight changes, usually a decrease in resentment). To the psychiatrists trying to make closer contact with patients for more effective treatment, the important thing was that the 14 became markedly more responsive. In many cases the numb automatism disappeared. Emotions that had been buried in the unconscious came out in the open, could be dealt with in psychotherapy...
...recovery in bonds was also significant for the stock market. With bond prices depressed, bond yields for the past year have been running at the highest levels since the Depression days of the 1930s, and consequently closer to stock yields. (Last week the average yield on high-grade corporate bonds was 4.8% v. 5.9% for the Dow-Jones industrials.) Since stocks are inherently more risky, many investors switched to bonds or did not invest at all. But bond dealers now think that the Fed's action has established a firm bottom for the bond market, and that bond prices...