Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...become a highly influential Republican in the House. Secretary of State-designate William Rogers was Eisenhower's last Attorney General; during the Kennedy and Johnson years, he kept a handsome house in Bethesda, Md., and worked both in New York and Washington for a topflight New York law firm...
James Reed Ellis, 47, looks like a university professor: compact, neat, with greying hair and blue eyes behind horn rimmed glasses. Ellis is, in fact, a corporate lawyer in the firm of Preston, Thorgrimson, Horowitz, Starin &; Ellis. He is also that rarest of citizens, a practical leader...
Tuesday, 9:30 p.m.: Johansen strides coolly onstage in a grey business suit. After the orchestral opening, his first solo entrance is firm, clean and smoothly phrased. He reads carefully from the score, but otherwise nothing in his playing betrays the tension onstage. After the first movement, Ormandy leans over to whisper: "Bravo." Johansen ripples out silvery pianissimos in the slow movement, builds the finale with structural logic and power. At the finish, the audience-which has been told only thai Peter Serkin is "indisposed" and knows nothing of what has gone on-gives Johansen a warm ovation. Ormandy...
...cited the fact that more than 60 systems manufacturers and some 4,000 companies dealing in related parts have been attracted to an industry that was "virtually non-existent 20 years ago." Nevertheless, IBM Chairman Thomas Watson Jr. now has to ponder hard before moving to expand his firm's three-quarters hold on the market...
Fleetwood Mac, yet another of the English blues groups, is built around two Mayall proteges and the influence of the master shows very clearly. Peter Green on lead guitar plays an authoritative and firm role with his sinuous guitar lines, insistently and sympathetically guiding the group to put out the refined and fluid sound that is so typically Mayallian. The other presence is that of John MacVie (also ex-Bluesbreaker) who contributes a strong and uncluttered and incredibly well-felt blues-bass throughout. This kind of restrained and delicate watered-down imitation of the Chicago sound is a valid method...