Word: fends
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Striving to fend off the mounting wrath of Wall Street investors over movie-making losses that have risen to more than $30 million in the past three years, 20th Century-Fox Film Corp. last week elected amiable Judge Samuel I. Rosenman, 66, chairman of the board. Lawyer Rosenman. former adviser to Presidents Roosevelt and Truman, will preside at the often explosive executive committee meetings, though President Spyros P. Skouras will still be in operating control. "The Judge will provide a very stabilizing influence," said one executive...
...strike. This leaves the U.S. flanks with little protection, despite the fact that many Soviet submarines have missiles that could reach at least 43 of the 50 largest U.S. cities, containing 85% of U.S. indus trial capacity. The Navy's antisubmarine net is not considered tight enough to fend all of them...
...past neither official nor academic Harvard has found anything amiss in this situation. According to the traditional view, the freshman should be left alone to fend for himself; take him in hand and you prevent his maturing. Apparently this line of thinking is going out of style, for the Freshman Dean's Office has effected this year the first major revision of the advising system since its inception...
...second thought. Illinois politicians soon realized that Daley was simply trying to fend off a worse possibility than the loss of a single seat. For unless the deadlocked Illinois legislature agrees on a redistricting plan, all 24 U.S. Representatives will be picked next year in statewide at-large elections. This prospect is not displeasing to many Republicans: they hope that in a nonpresidential election year, their outstate strength might overcome Chicago's Democratic vote. Explains a Daley aide: "With 48 candidates running all over the state, people will get confused and tend to vote according to party. I think...
Chief John McCone, Foster was long ago appraised by the New Frontier's talent scouts as an able, experienced administrator who might some day fill a job for President Kennedy. Also like McCone, he is a Republican, which may help fend off partisan objections to actions taken by an agency new to the ways of Washington. Born in New Jersey, courteous, methodical Bill Foster studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, piloted "Flying Jennies" as a combat instructor during World War I, then spent 24 years with Long Island's Pressed & Welded Steel Products...