Word: glamourizer
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...Flimsy Wisps. The action largely involved low-priced issues usually connected with such glamour industries as computers, electronics, equipment leasing and magnetic tape. Many of the companies are thriving splendidly, but others have little fundamental strength to support them. Lately, brokers warn, investors have been lunging after issues on flimsy wisps of news, sometimes even calling in orders without knowing the name of the "onics" stock they want...
Behind this recent tale of international crime and punishment was the simple fact that the Geneva teller had just read a counterfeiting advisory put out by the International Criminal Police Organization-Interpol. The glamorous acronym invokes images of SMERSH-smashing undercover men from U.N.C.L.E. but the glamour is a myth. Interpol never makes a pinch; it is merely the information broker that helps the world's police to help one another. The catch sounds small (some 2,000 arrests last year), but the effect is large. Interpol's prey is the big-time international crook-the jet-borne...
...carried on the surge, and IBM shot up a whopping $28.50, thanks to a $17 jump Thursday, to close at a record $496.50 per share. But the industrials are catching up, partly because cash-heavy institutional investors (notably mutual funds) are upping their purchases. "The more the glamour stocks go up," explains Richard Buchsbaum, research director at W. E. Hutton & Co., "the cheaper the blue chips look...
...many ways, Bedford-Stuyvesant is worse of than Harlem. It is bigger, yet it has received from public and private do-good agencies for a less attention than -- as one planning paper terms it--the "glamour ghetto" to the north. Until the Bedford-Stuyvesant riots, the city's Council Against Poverty was funneling into Harlem five times as much money as Bedford-Stuyvesant was getting...
...usual sort of leggy glamour girl who is ordinarily greeted by photographers when landing at Kennedy Airport. Her hair was bobbed a trifle close, her figure was a trifle stout, and her face was round and beaming but she nonetheless had a special kind of glamour. As more than 100 news men and airport police surrounded her, a forest of microphones poking from their midst, Svetlana Stalina, 42, daughter of Joseph Stalin and by far the most prominent defector ever to pass through the Iron Curtain, gave her first greeting to the U.S. "Hello there, everybody," she said...