Word: davids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PUSHKIN, by David Magarshack. In a solid, if sometimes pedestrian biography, the poet who was a founding father of Russian literature often seems more like a rakehell uncle...
...politician who abhorred politics. He was a hero who despised heroics. Yet there was nothing inconsistent about Dwight David Eisenhower. As much as any other American of today or yesterday, he was the storybook American. A man of luminous integrity and decency, of steadfast courage and conscience, he embodied in his wide smile, high ideals and down-to-earth speech all the virtues of a simpler and more serene America...
Born Oct. 14, 1890, in Denison, Texas, where his father, David Eisenhower, was a railroad-yard mechanic, Dwight was brought to Abilene at the age of two. The family was never well off?David Eisenhower rarely earned more than $100 a month?and the six boys worked hard to help out. Dwight sold vegetables grown on his family's three acres and stoked furnaces at the Belle Springs Creamery, where, at 19, he became night foreman...
...remain very high indeed. For one thing, businessmen expect to spend some $73 billion, 14% more than last year, to expand their factories during 1969. "I am frankly disturbed by this evidence of how the collective decisions of investors may help to keep inflation growing," says Treasury Secretary David Kennedy. Because of the "multiplier effect" of capital outlays, each dollar of such investment adds about $2.50 to the total economy. The phenomenon worries Washington for two reasons: 1) it has an immediate inflationary effect, and 2) it could lead to industrial overcapacity followed by a profit squeeze and massive layoffs...
Promises, Promises--Burt Bacharach and Hal David write some of the best and most innovative songs around, but perhaps you might prefer to buy the original cast album rather than go to this somewhat unsatisfactory distillation by Neil Simon of Billy Wilder-I. A. L. Diamond's "The Apartment." At the SHUBERT, W. 44th...