Word: holding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spotting an American reporter, he asked: "You mean to say you've come all the way from the U.S. just to climb Snowdon?" Reporter: "It was just for you, sir," adding that the investiture had something to do with it. Replied Charles helpfully: "Well, perhaps we could hold it up here...
Rockefeller had to hold over a day in Paraguay because riotous students had made Montevideo, Uruguay's capital and his next scheduled stop, unsafe for a visit. There were a number of firebombings, most aimed against firms with U.S. interests, and terrorists set fire to a General Motors plant, causing damage estimated at $1,000,000. Thus the Governor flew to the resort town of Punta del Este, where Uruguayan officials felt that they could discuss their problems in safety...
...S.D.S.'s twelve regional offices have been vandalized and files burned or stolen. Four different congressional committees have announced plans to investigate the group. The growing official hostility partly explains why S.D.S. was refused meeting facilities at 60 colleges, camps and halls before deciding, surprisingly, to hold the delayed convention in Mayor Daley's Chicago...
...everything else will fall into line," Too many children's shows, he believes, are based on an adult's idea of what a child wants to see. They use the "age-old format of menace, threat, the chase and lots of action accompanied by noise to hold the youngsters' attention." The problem, he says, is that broadcasters of children's programs have not "grown up" with their audiences. "They still think kids are in the fairy-tale...
...decline? The long slide is one sign that inflationary psychology is finally being broken-or at least dented. Most analysts agree that the market is oversold. Mutual funds harbor some $4.6 billion-or nearly 9% of their assets-in cash and 30-to-90-day Treasury bills. Brokerage houses hold about $6 billion in uncommitted margin money. That potential purchasing power could provide a lift to the market, but investors are awaiting signs of a loosening of credit. The signs may be a long time coming. Last week Thomas O. Waage, vice president of the New York Federal Reserve Bank...