Word: direct
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...anyone seeing the film, her be wilderment and distress seemed achingly real, but the jurors had been carefully instructed not to consider it as direct testimony. Though they could hardly ignore it, they had also to remember that hypnosis is not an infallible prod to the truth. Mulling all of this over, the jury deliberated for two days. "It's a rare case," said Judge Gardner.*Finally, late last week, the jury unanimously returned a verdict of guilty of murder in the first degree. Said Judge Gardner afterward: "My gamble paid off. The verdict has confirmed my faith...
...Corp.-have formed a joint gold pool to share purchases, sales and profits. In place of the London dealers' twice-daily meetings (10:30 a.m. and 3 p.m.) to fix the price of gold, the Swiss-bank traders confer about prices every few minutes throughout the day over direct phone lines. Instead of collecting a commission, the Swiss charge buyers of gold more than they pay sellers. That "spread" started out as high as $3 per oz. in the first days after the London gold pool's demise; last week it narrowed to 25? per oz.-a competitive...
...Samuel S. Bowles, assistant professor of Economics, said that there are "direct gains in the white community" from racism...
Prophetic Approaches. In the long run, the other technique of "automatist" surrealism proved more revolutionary and durable. As practiced by Joan Miro, André Masson, Max Ernst and Roberto Matta, automatism relied on the unconscious to direct the pen, pencil, brush or tube of glue. "Rather than setting out to paint something," said Miró, "I begin, and as I paint, the picture begins to assert itself." Landscape with Rooster, one of a dozen outsize, uninhibited Mirós on display, illustrates the antic, fanciful contours that result...
...federal borrowing and still higher interest rates in the months just ahead. The 6.45% return applied to Federal National Mortgage Association "participation certificates"-shares in a pool of Government-owned mortgages and other loans. They were available to the public in minimum lots of $5,000. Though not a direct obligation of the U.S. Treasury, the participation certificates come close to that gilt-edged status because the Attorney General has ruled that they are backed by the full faith and credit of the Government...