Word: firm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...offer of an ambassadorship, but, crippled and still ill, he "did not think that was right, either." In 1957, when he could work again, he took his present job as president of a small real-estate firm. Current salary: $180 a month. Scrimping, saving, and struggling with a budget have not made Cafe Filho bitter. He lives with his wife, Jandyra, 56, (they have a son, 16, who is preparing for the naval academy), in the three-bedroom apartment on Rio's Copacabana Beach where he has lived for the past 15 years, even as President...
...biggest increase in seven months. The slide had not been caused by heavy selling but by a lack of buyers; volume had been thin. Many a broker guessed that the 615-to-620 level, where the market had found strong support last week, may turn out to be a firm bottom from which the market will rise to new peaks...
...Soviet Premier is sincere in proposing total disarmament with firm guarantees and complete inspection at every stage, the West is virtually morally compelled to accept. But acceptance and realization of total disarmament, as many fear and Khrushchev perhaps hopes, will severely strain an American economy in which more than half the national budget goes into defense...
Members of the Faculty will start their investigation of the College dining halls in the next week or two, Tucker stated. Although a professional consulting firm conducted an inquiry into Harkness last year, there is no indication that outside agencies will be called in for the College study...
...President, who has called the steel situation intolerable, met separately with union and industry leaders at the White House. He was reported to have avoided discussing the specific issues, but to have used firm language in urging both sides to resume bargaining...