Word: counts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gaulle. For De Gaulle can no longer count on hand-picking his successor, or on his U.N.R. Party's surviving him. No longer, in fact, can he count on a parliamentary majority; in 1967 that may well cease to exist...
Cavanagh's strength at home can be measured by the size of his re-election victory last month. Although his opponent tried to ignite casual bigots' fear of "crime in the streets," he only got 144,000 votes to the Mayor's 295,000. Like most liberals Cavanagh could count on the County AFL-CIO and all the major Negro organizations for support, but he also received votes, money, and testimonials from automobile executives and most local businessmen...
...controls if businessmen do not comply. The nation's 900 largest corporations (v. only 500 up to now) will be expected to limit their outlays in foreign countries during 1965 and 1966 to 135% of each company's annual average during 1962-64. Moreover, the Government will count undistributed profits of subsidiaries abroad as foreign investment, thus thwarting companies that have been keeping profits overseas in lieu of borrowing. To restrict another source of dollar drain, the Administration will extend the unpopular 15% interest-equalization tax on foreign borrowing in the U.S. to ten more countries...
...newspaper ad offered a 19-in. portable TV set for $8.98, and crowds of pushing shoppers showed up last week at Manhattan's Masters Inc. dis count store to claim the bargain. Trou ble was that the price before the typo graphical error read $88.98. When Masters' clerks refused to sell the TV sets for $8.98, the crowd threatened to get out of hand. Masters' President Jack Haizen made a quick decision: he had the store closed, ordered the sets sold for the price in the ad-though he was not legally obliged...
...life. At 16, as a high school dropout in Liege, Belgium, he finished his first novel. At 19, he began producing prose for the Paris pulps at the rate of 80 pages a day. In less than four years he knocked out "more than 300" (he soon lost count) novels and novelettes, and once actually splattered off a quite readable novel in 25 hours. At 25, he dropped his 17 pseudonyms, invented Inspector Maigret, and wrote the first of "more than 60" detective novels that have made him the most famous of French whodunists. In his 30s he began...