Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Citizen Kane Feeling. Clansman Dean Martin began to put out word that President-elect Kennedy was going to appoint him "Secretary of Liquor." Sammy Davis Jr., a convert to Judaism, had other ambitions: "Sinatra will be Ambassador to Italy," he said. "I'm hoping for Jerusalem, but I'll be lucky if I get Kenya." Some of Hollywood's other post-mortems last week were turning into post toasties as many echoed the comment of Democratic Writer-Producer-Director Dore Schary: "I don't know who can stave off this rush of professional showmen into politics...
...incoming calls to another phone if the first line is busy. ¶ Transfer calls to another number. Thus, when called away to a friend's house while expecting an important message, the telephone user need only dial a code number to have the call routed to him. ¶Convert extension phones to household intercom units by dialing two digits...
...more widespread automation becomes, the better it will work. It will get a big boost from the Federal Reserve System, which is starting to convert its check clearinghouses in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Boston and San Francisco to automated systems. The Fed is expected to pressure other banks diplomatically to fall into line, start using the preceded magnetic-ink checks...
...Kotaro Tanaka, conservative ex-Chief Justice of Japan and a convert to Roman Catholicism, whose deep respect for the law was outraged by the actions of Tokyo's snake-dancing anti-U.S. rioters earlier this year ("influenced by a foreign power...
...fictional American in Europe is apt to be a boor, a nincompoop, or else a sudden convert to the notion that his home soil is spiritually sterile. Even Henry James, the foremost author in the field, wrote less from an observer's strength than from a vantage point uneasily anchored in an inferiority complex. Talented Novelist Elizabeth Spencer (The Voice at the Back Door) does not entirely escape the compulsion to prove that as a sensitive U.S. writer, she understands the gaucherie of her countrymen. But The Light in the Piazza is one of the best novels...