Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...agency's enthusiasm-"the beautiful hysteria of it all," as one aide put it-only honed outsiders' skepticism. Hadn't the nation heard this sort of talk before? Hadn't Herbert Hoover, just a year before the great collapse of 1929, proclaimed: "We shall soon, with the help of God, be within sight of the day when poverty will be banished from the nation"? In Louisville and Manhattan, bumper stickers and lapel buttons proclaimed: I'M FIGHTING POVERTY. I WORK. Louisiana Congressman Otto Passman complained that the ballyhoo was damaging the U.S. image abroad, averring...
...only talent but a sensible new generation of human beings. Last spring at an agricultural college in Indiana, I saw my Oedipus Rex in an excellent production by students whose other time, for all I know, was occupied with lectures on fertilizer. Then, only a few weeks ago, I heard the Eastman School orchestra play to perfection, on a minimum of rehearsal, some of my most difficult later music, which at least one renowned professional orchestra could not manage after a week of rehearsals and a dozen performances...
...Singer Co. heard President Donald P. Kircher predict that on the basis of first-quarter sales of $250 million, up 10%, Singer this year for the first time is likely to join the corporate elite of 55 firms whose sales surpass $1 billion annually...
Moving its annual meeting into the Southwest for the first time, IBM last week gathered its stockholders in Houston. The news they heard from the world's leading computer maker was more than big enough to suit the occasion. Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. first announced that the company is about to split its stock for the tenth time, this time on a 3-2 basis. Moreover, announced Watson, IBM next month will issue another 1,300,000 shares worth $350 million, will give stockholders first opportunity to buy them. The offering will be the largest underwriting...
Around the U.S. last week, stockholders in other companies heard news that was just as good. Examples...