Word: dones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ezra Taft Benson, he agreed: "All right, he is an s.o.b. - but he's our s.o.b." When the vote was taken, the veto stood. Indiana's Charles Abraham Halleck, 58, minority leader of the House of Representatives, had won another victory for the Eisenhower Administration. He had done it by doing what, by birth, training and inclination, comes naturally. "I," says Halleck, "am a gut fighter." Praise from the Top. As one of the roughest, most highly skilled infighters in U.S. politics, Republican Halleck, in less than six months as the House minority leader, has given his party...
...invested in M.I.T. shares ten years ago would be worth $3,650 today v. $1,417 if it had been placed in a savings bank at $%. But many a smaller fund that has less to invest, and thus can get in and out of the market more easily, has done much better. Among the top performers in each fund category, the best record of all was turned in by Boston's Keystone 8-4 Fund, with assets of only $31 million. It recorded a 508% gain (see chart...
...bull market. But Broker Arthur Weisenberger, the Boswell of the industry, whose brokerage house puts out the definitive yearbook of the funds, argues that an investor could pick a slow mover even in the stocks in the blue-chip Dow-Jones averages. Only 14 of the 30 stocks have done as well as the 229% gain in the averages in the last ten years...
...children should only be lectured or else sentimentalized, was the great battle of his life. His fictional children indulge in gleeful fantasies in which Olympians are skinned alive, shot or made to walk the plank. The Olympians struck back; a reviewer called one Grahame short-story collection "a dishonour done to the sacred cause of childhood...
Sentimentality often prevails in the characteristic Art Nouveau simplification of natural forms. The handle of an American silver mirror, done under this style's influence, depicts the body of a young girl clad in what seems to and turning along the border. Though she may be swirling reeds; her glamorized face appears on the mirror's back, her luxuriant hair twisting sound sensuous, she merely looks affected, coy and thoroughly uninviting...