Word: firmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After graduating as senior class president from Manhattan's George Washington High School, he worked as a lithographic-supply salesman and a bill collector, attended New York University's law school at the same time, passed his bar exams in 1927. In that, year was born Javits & Javits, a firm specializing in bankruptcy and corporate reorganization, with Ben the inside man and Jack the eloquent trial lawyer. Jack, who set up his own firm when he entered politics, is now worth roughly $1,000,000, earns $30,-000 a year as Senator and another $35,000, after taxes, from...
...five-week-old dock strike, and for backing the U.S. in Viet Nam and continuing to maintain Britain's large contingent of troops "east of Suez" in Southeast Asia. A broad middle-of-the-road band of M.P.s chimed in, too, complaining that Wilson had hardly provided the "firm and purposive government" that he had promised. And there was general worry over the continuing weakness of the pound, which has had to be rescued by the world's bankers again (see WORLD BUSINESS...
...after the youth market. That means a different styling. Our job is to get the confidence of the public back"-a clear if exaggerated implication that would-be buyers have lost confidence in the company. A.M.C.'s car sales have dropped 20% so far this year, and the firm reported a fiscal six-month loss of $4,200,000 on sales of $479 million...
Died. Blanche Wolf Knopf, 71, president of Alfred A. Knopf publishing house and wife of Board Chairman Alfred A. Knopf, who worked tirelessly for 51 years to bring the firm to its current prestigious place, personally garnering such luminaries as Freud, Sartre and Camus, as well as mystery writers Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...perspective. He sets up a telescope and peeps at the passing show from behind a screen of greenery. What he sees on a distant park bench eventually lures him out back to where the action is. "It was not so much her good looks, her smooth-brushed brow and firm round neck bowed so that two or three vertebrae surfaced in the soft flesh, as a certain bemused and dry-eyed expression in which he seemed to recognize -himself! She was his better half...