Word: crystallic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nothing Up His Sleeve. In Excelsior Springs, Mo., police arrested Edwin Cotteleer, magician-entertainer at the Elms Hotel, charged him with making off from the hotel with silverware, dishes, two ice buckets, a crystal water pitcher, a card table, table mats, bath rugs, tablecloths, napkins, hand and bath towels, wash cloths, blankets, sheets, pillows and pillow slips...
...Manhattan convention of the American Chemical Society (18,000 chemists), Dr. James Bryant Conant, chemist and president of Harvard, looked into his crystal ball (a plastic one, he explained, in deference to modern chemistry). It told him what the world would be like after the next 50 years. ¶Atomic war has been averted, though by "the narrowest of margins." At the end of the century, "Paris, Berlin, London, New York, Moscow still stand physically undamaged by any enemy action since World War II." Communist regimes still hold much of the world, but both Marxism and its opponents have been...
...Albert Barnett, professor of New Testament at Atlanta's Emory University, insisted that the worst thing that anybody could say about McMichael is that he is a "naive, noble Christian." Said Dr. Henry Hitt Crane of Detroit's Central Methodist Church: "His is a crystal-clear Christianity which we must cherish. He is the one symbol on whom we can all agree. He is our flag. If you haul down this flag, you virtually capitulate the liberal cause in the Methodist Church...
...intrigue and luxury. He was surrounded largely by sycophants who catered to his whims and seldom dared contradict him. He inherited a private fortune of $50 million, an annual Civil List income of $400,000, four fabulous palaces, huge estates, yachts. Queen Mother Nazli was a devotee of crystal balls, card reading, the scrutiny of tea leaves, and the augural dissection of pigeons. (She now lives in Beverly Hills where she is reported to be feeling right at home.) Last year, when she sanctioned the marriage of her daughter, Princess Fathia, to an Egyptian commoner, Farouk stripped Nazli and Fathia...
Different Animal. Most crystal-gazers have been baffled because they have tried to judge the current market by old rules. 1951's bull market is different from its predecessors, largely because there has been none of the speculative frenzy that usually accompanies bull-market tops. The so-called "little fellows" have jumped into the market all right, but instead of chasing after cheap cats & dogs they have largely bought blue chips and held on to them, ignoring price fluctuations. Those with large stock profits have not sold because, with dividends so high, they can find no better employment...