Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that time, 1 p.m. Moscow time Oct. 4 (6 a.m. New York time), Lunik III was already 67,000 miles from the earth. Britain's big radio station at Jodrell Bank, instructed where to look by a telegram from Moscow, picked up the signal too and held it for 20 minutes. Then the violin notes stopped suddenly as if shut...
...never thought about acting until she was all of six years old. Her older brother Raymond (then 13) was appearing in occasional television shows, and Patty badgered Ray's agent into giving her an audition. The inflections she learned on the Manhattan streets where she grew up held her back for a few months. But before long she was doing TV commercials and playing some small parts on such dramatic shows as the U.S. Steel Hour. (On the Armstrong show about the liner Andrea Doria, Patty was the child tossed overboard by her mother.) Soon Patty had worked...
...odds held fast through the third contestant's rendering of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 in C Minor, and at evening's end the expected announcement was made: 24-year-old Pianist Malcolm Frager was the 2Oth-anniversary winner of the U.S.'s most prestigious instrumental competition, for the Leventritt Award...
Prescriptions & Precedents. The judge's own prescription is much easier to swallow. Voting rights for some 43 million shares of G.M. stock held by the Du Pont company would pass to Du Pont shareholders on a pro rata basis (about 1⅓G.M. votes for each share of Du Pont held). Another 20 million shares would be "sterilized," i.e., not voted at all. These are the shares held by the officers and directors of Du Pont and the two other Du Pont family-controlled companies: Delaware Realty & Investment Co., which controls Christiana Securities Co., which in turn controls...
...that the Supreme Court's ruling in the Du Pont case would be used as a precedent to force companies, big and little, to shuck off blocks of stock in customer firms. But if LaBuy's ruling stands, it could set a precedent of. its own: companies held in similar violation of the Clayton Act need only transfer their voting rights. Deeply disappointed, Department of Justice lawyers may appeal. They well recall that the Supreme Court has reversed LaBuy once before on the case; it upset his 1954 ruling that Du Font's control...