Word: general
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Governor, decided to put a high gloss on her second tongue. At Manhattan's Columbia University School of General Studies, Mia plunged into an intermediate English course for foreign students, four one-hour classes a week...
...first time, this year the Leventritt finals were opened to the general public in an effort to give the competition some of the glamour enjoyed by major European competitions such as Belgium...
...Chicago federal court, the most important legal decision affecting U.S. business this year-and perhaps for years to come-was handed down last week by snow-mustached Judge Walter Jacob LaBuy. Framing the terms for the long-awaited divorce of Du Pont from its 23% control of General Motors stock, Judge LaBuy ruled that Du Pont may keep its 63 million shares (market value: $3.5 billion), but must give up its voting rights...
...demands that Du Pont distribute two-thirds of its G.M. holdings to its shareholders, sell the other one-third on the open market over a period of ten years. Such a plan, said the court, would have a "serious impact on the market value of the stock of General Motors and Du Pont" and thus would cause "substantial losses to the many thousands of holders of such stocks who cannot conceivably be called guilty persons...
Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.) Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers...