Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from being a hawk on the war, I have constantly been revising my views, and in recent months I have become a firm dove. In case my views are of any interest: I am a loyal American, and happy to fight for my country wherever our rights, or the rights of people who desire to be under our auspices, are questioned. I no longer feel that Viet Nam is such a place...
...proving every whit as persistent. In a valiant effort to blunt the 3-to-l edge enjoyed by Richard Nixon in the Granite State's March 12th Republican primary, Romney last week wound up his first five days of campaigning with 11,826 hands shaken and a firm belief that reports of his imminent political death are premature...
...purchase Little, Brown & Co., one of the oldest U.S. book publishers. Little, Brown's 64 stockholders will receive 170,000 shares of Time Inc. stock (current value: about $16.5 million) in a tax-free transaction. "We are delighted to be joining forces with so highly respected a firm as Little, Brown," said Time Inc. President James A. Linen. "We have no doubt whatsoever that in its new association with Time Inc., Little, Brown will continue to make increasingly important contributions in the book publishing field...
...ease the itch, 40 representatives of both the Pennsylvania and the Central have planned together for many months. They worked in neutral territory-offices of the consulting firm of McKinsey & Co. The first sessions were stiffly formal, but even though some Central executives fear that they will be frozen out of key jobs by their opposite numbers at the dominant Pennsy, the atmosphere soon thawed...
...pioneer in the office copying field, American Photocopy Equipment Co. was a Wall Street favorite back in the 1950s. Then it faded fast. Trouble was, while the Evanston, Ill., firm had scored its success with machines that turned out wet copies, other companies-notably Xerox-were building huge new markets with "dry" electrostatic copiers requiring no messy chemical developers. APECO tried to do the same, but its first electrostatic machines were plagued by costly production defects. From a 1961 high of $4,925,000, its profits went downhill, and in 1966 the firm finished with a deficit...