Word: counteractions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside and newsmen and technicians on the inside. At 6:31 Jack Kennedy rolled up in a Pontiac convertible with Brother Bobby and a few aides, swept directly into the TV studio. It was cold (64° F.); studio officials meant to keep the temperature low in order to counteract the hot lights that produced beads of perspiration on Nixon's face during the first telecast. Kennedy allowed as how he would need a sweater if things didn't warm up; a studio man turned up the thermostat. Then Jack and Bobby walked up to the platform, took...
...John F. Kennedy '40. Bundy, a Republican, said he based his decision on Kennedy's ability to gather around him as advisors men of more diverse abilities and interests than those who would be prominent in a Nixon administration. He added that Kennedy would be more likely to counteract the Republican-Southern Democratic coalition which rules in Congress...
...salaried managers of U.S. industry the most promising way to make and keep a fortune nowadays seems to be through stock options. They have become the major device to counteract the heavy (up to 91%) ordinary income taxes on company officers' pay. Some of the gains have been big: at Radio Corp. of America, President John Burns has a paper profit of $830,000 on his options for 20,000 shares of stock, while General Electric Co. Chairman Ralph Cordiner has a $1,262,260 paper profit on options exercised since 1957. But with this year's fall...
...sensed the change, Adlai Stevenson (who celebrates his 60th birthday this week) did nothing to counteract it. Next week he will leave for a two-month tour of Latin America-about as far away as he can get from the eye of the political storm. As he packed for his trip, he announced that he has declined an invitation to be a delegate to the Los Angeles convention in July (he will attend as an observer). "I think my district will be represented in the convention by the president of a corsetmakers' union," he said wryly. "And I might...
...Three. During the decade, the combined output of these six jumped 66% v. a rise of 42% for the economy as a whole. In some of the six, notably utilities, which posted a 128% gain in output with only an 18% price rise, productivity rose fast enough to counteract the usual price increases that accompany soaring demand. But in others of the powerful six, productivity fell behind. Productivity did not keep pace with costs in construction and durable goods; added to a seventh burgeoning industry, services, which by its very nature does not increase productivity rapidly, they were enough...