Word: digester
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panic, and trading volume stayed extraordinarily low for most of the week. Professionals figured that, in any case, the market needed an excuse to retreat after a heady climb, guessed that there was a good deal of plain old profit taking. At the most bearish hour last week, Indicator Digest, an investment advisory service, issued a special bulletin: "Emotional war jitters have always culminated in good buying opportunities." True enough, but wary professionals were not entirely sure that the jitters were quite over...
...NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. These short novels contain glittering prose, a variety of verbal tricks, and almost too many tours de force to digest at one reading. Already known as the most tart-tongued of British critics, Author Brophy has now hit a fictional stride that should place her well up in the ranks of Britain's formidable array of lady novelists...
...timetable for this week's public hearings calls for testimony from Rockefeller, Lodge, Scranton and Goldwater at morning sessions, and from some 150 representatives of special-interest groups in the afternoons. Each night an eleven-member drafting committee will digest the day's hearings, relating them to position papers already on hand from the candidates, from academic sources, congressional Republicans, and the prestigious Critical Issues Council, which, under the direction of Milton Eisen hower, has issued eleven detailed papers on such topics as Cuba, civil rights and the Far East...
Quality, Not Quantity. The youngster's triumph, the sixth time in eleven tries that a Russian has earned top honors in the prestigious international competition, was a particularly bitter pill for the older U.S. contingent to digest. With 20 entrants, by far the largest delegation among the 28 countries represented, the Americans had clearly come to conquer. But in the two withering weeks of elimination rounds, quantity gave way to quality, leaving but four American hopefuls to compete in the contest finals along with three of the five rigorously trained Russian entries...
Literary Caddies. Palmer commands the added income with the effortless grace that goes into a good tee shot. An editor of Golf Digest-one of the many magazines that also buy prose from the pros-writes Palmer's copy; the line drawings illustrating the text are traced from photographs taken of Palmer in Pittsburgh in 1959. About the only editorial control that Sam Snead exerts over his column, which has been running since 1940, is to insist that he be shown wearing that familiar Snead trademark, the porkpie straw...