Word: generously
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Truax, 26, was also trying to beat the system in Las Vegas' casinos. He lost "at least $200,000" at one casino, says California Assistant Attorney General Marshall S. Mayer, and perhaps more than that at several others, where he was known as a generous tipper and a big, if unlucky, chemin de fer player...
...companies with profits that are rising only as fast as the U.S. economy's gross national product. Thus, the Dow-Jones industrials now have P-E ratios averaging less than 17 to 1, down from 21 to 1 just before the 1962 market break. Analysts give much more generous P-Es-50 to 1, or more-to companies with profits that rise faster than the U.S. economy and, most significantly, look as if they will continue...
...past six years, Jacqueline Kennedy, 38, has occasionally been wearing a magnificent leopard coat made from $30,000 worth of rare skins given her by the Somali government when she was First Lady. Last month the generous Somalis presented a similar token of their esteem to Muriel Humphrey, 55, during her African jaunt with the Vice President. Alas! The intervening years have seen the passage of a law prohibiting Government officials from accepting any gift of more than "minimal value," and Muriel had to turn the furs over to the State Department. There is a possibility, said State, that Humphrey...
Last week the 90-member St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and its conductor, Eleazar de Carvalho, packed up, bade Kiel a long-awaited farewell, and began life anew in Powell Symphony Hall, named for Shoe Executive Walter S. Powell, whose widow had provided a generous endowment for the move. But unlike the new concert halls in Manhattan and Los Angeles, Powell is no monument to architectural modernity. As befits one of the nation's oldest professional orchestras,* the hall is actually the 42-year-old St. Louis Theater, a prime specimen of the garish era of movie-palace construction...
...BLAST OF WAR 1939-1945, by Harold Macmillan. In the second volume of his memoirs, the former Prime Minister again shows himself a man of generous mind and literary ability as he tells of his role in England's wartime government...