Word: coined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Says a rival publisher: "Sir Frank will stop at nothing to save a quid or earn one." Yet he has been known to bet $7,-ooo on the flip of a coin, and some of that same compulsive gambler's plunge led him to challenge for the America...
Last April's steel crisis brought screams from businessmen that the U.S. Government under President Kennedy and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg is meddling too much in labor-management matters. But there is another side to that coin. And last week A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany sat down at a lunch with Washington newsmen and criticized the Administration in terms remarkably similar to those voiced by many corporation presidents...
...pack up and go home." Then he turns intensely serious. "We can't change too often though. It costs too much money." He picks from his desk a child's china bank in the shape of a rocket. When he puts a nickel in the slot, the coin falls right out through the open bottom. "A friend gave me this," he says, "to keep me thinking about the taxpayers' money...
...Like It and Macbeth were on the boards last week. Most Los Angeles theaters are the small-capacity off-Broadway type (locally called "off Vine") that run smoothly on three-quarters of a shoestring and will try almost anything but a new play. Few make money, but some coin it. Two small L.A. theaters recently reported box-office receipts of $1,000,000 between them over the past two seasons...
...Caudillo himself has mellowed, but he has lost none of the crafty skill or un derlying steel. Every coin of the nation still bears his image and the words. "Chief of Spain by the Grace of God." Puritani cal and pious, he sometimes prays for hours in his private chapel in Pardo pal ace before making major decisions ; to in duce night-loving, late-eating Spaniards to follow his own early-to-bed habit, he has ordered Madrid restaurants and cafes to stop serving food after midnight...