Word: holdout
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...Tricks. Both American Express and Diners' furiously scouted out and signed up new services. American Express won a hand by signing Manhattan's Toots Shor restaurant, long a credit-card holdout. Diners' bounced right back by announcing a contract with the Stork Club, another holdout. American Express then scored by adding a galaxy of nonrestaurant services: Western Union, Greyhound Bus, Avis and Hertz car rentals, Kinney Parking Systems, Kelly Girls for temporary office help. Amexco spread the word that in any of its 303 international offices, a cardholder could charge a ticket or tour to any spot...
Lebanon's Prime Minister Sami Solh, who narrowly escaped assassination two weeks ago on the road from Béit Meri and was irate at the rebels' continued holdout, tendered his resignation, but President Chamoun refused it. Puffing worriedly on a hubble-bubble water pipe, Solh told newsmen that he could have been butchered as was Iraq's Nuri asSaid "if the American forces had been 24 hours late." He went on: "The rebels, who had massed fresh forces and ammunition from Syria, were to launch a big attack shortly after the Iraqi coup...
...reason for the jump to increased buying pressure from such big investors as mutual funds (which now hold some 4% of all shares on the New York Stock Exchange) and pension funds. Another major reason was that the analysts themselves were changing their gloomy tune and encouraging many a holdout bear to hurry into the market for fear of missing it altogether. In the subtle psychological change, the weight of opinion was against any sharp break back to the recession lows. Instead, Wall Street's shrewd professionals speculated that the market would hang fairly close...
...breathless week, Ellender was only a neolithic holdout. Fired by Texan Johnson as he rocketed to stake a claim in space for the U.S. Congress and its Democratic majority, the members focused on space with the sense of urgency usually reserved for crop supports and rivers and harbors bills. Example: Johnson and a fellow Democrat, New Mexico's Clinton Anderson, were scanning the House bill that would give Defense Secretary McElroy authority for his Advanced Research Projects Agency. They decided that McElroy's franchise would be too broad. At Johnson's urging, Senate conferees, meeting with...
...months the last holdout at the White House, President Eisenhower has at long last decided to dispense with the services of Perennial Politico Harold Stassen, the Administration's disarmament adviser, who stirred up a ruckus over Vice President Nixon's renomination in 1956, recently has undermined Secretary of State Dulles' disarmament policy by agitating for an agreement with Russia to end atomic tests. The details of Childe Harold's departure have not yet been decided, but he knows the route to the door...