Word: coms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wallace -even had a loose alliance with labor (in exchange for labor's support of farm programs). By the late 1930s, its ardor for the New Deal had cooled, and with the start of World War II the Farm Bureau's break with the Roosevelt Administration was com plete. In 1947, the election of Iowa Corn and Hog Farmer Allen Kline as president signaled the organization's move to the right. "Kline brought us to look at the economic issues in agriculture," Shuman explains. "His administration said, 'We want less government, not more...
ANNA MOFFO/LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI (RCA Victor). Miss Moffo sings Brazilian Com poser-Conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos' wanton Bachianas Brasileiras in a way that would excite Bach or any gypsy. Her voice has both richness and fluidity; her mood shifts with the song like quicksilver. In Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, she settles unfortunately into simpering sentimentality, which is not relieved by Stokowski's painfully slow pace...
...Washington, Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach announced a com promise agreement to settle the Government's suit against the 1961 consolidation of Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. and the Hanover Bank into the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Co.−a merger declared illegal in Federal court earlier this year (TIME, March 19). Although Katzenbach revealed no details, the $7 billion, 135-branch Manufacturers Hanover Trust has reportedly agreed to shed as many as 40 branches by selling them to smaller competitors or forming them into a new, completely independent New York bank...
Most of his fellow New Yorkers com plain about crime. Charlie DiMaggio, 62, does something about it. Owner of a closet-sized grocery store ,on Lexington Avenue just south of Spanish Harlem, DiMaggio has been the victim of 26 holdups in 20 years. He has thwarted the bandits 16 times, shot four robbers, and helped arrest twelve others. And that, as Cousin Joe, the erstwhile Yankee Clipper would agree, is pretty good clipping. Last week three armed Negroes walked into the store for Holdup No. 26. Shoving Charlie into the wash room, they scooped $300 from the cash register...
...five leading golf balls: only one is registered." This fall American Motors will specifically name competing cars in its new ad campaign as a way of pointing up Rambler features. Many more advertisers that do not name their rivals in so many words still make it unmistakable where the com petition is. When Avis calls itself No. 2, readers know at once that Hertz is No. 1. "There are only two well-known color films in America," begins General Aniline & Film Corp.'s new ad for Anscochrome, thus immediately identifying Kodak as its chief competitor without actually saying...