Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...atrocities. I resent the contention so commonly made today that it is my duty and that of all other persons to make a continuing effort to understand and appreciate it. As a scientist, I have some esoteric interests of my own, but I do not insist that anyone else share my interests in these things. In fact, I would be surprised if many people...
Cardin, who has also branched out into men's fashions, fielded his corps of boy and girl "cosmonauts" in jumpers and welders' helmets for the third season, as if to insist that they will really make it to the moon. His newest touch was wide, wide vinyl "space belts," which gird the torso from belly button to bosom bottom, zip up the back...
Brokers like McCollester insist that the Government is making a mistake by ending the swaps on the grounds that they are depriving the U.S. of capital-gains tax revenue. Left to their own devices, the professionals maintain, stockholders are not likely to sell the stocks and pay the tax; moreover the Government collects whenever fund managers sell off some shares to pay costs or make portfolio changes. The brokers, of course, are also sorry to lose "big ticket" business. The average swap-fund transaction involves $85,000 in stock and a $2,975 commission v. the average commission of about...
...eleven-member advisory committee, including Jacqueline Kennedy and five other friends of the family, meets biannually to discuss the institute, but has no authority over its staff or the school of government. Both Harvard officials and Kennedy friends insist that the institute's nonpartisan goal is to fill a significant gap in the academic world. In essence, it has been designed as a temporary center of intellectual refreshment for the modern breed of academic activist whose real love is to make and execute federal policy-yet who also cannot live too long without some contact with the world...
...gram of silver content. Mrs. Post and Davies were divorced in 1955, and she subsequently married and divorced Pittsburgh Industrialist Herbert May. The names of her latest escorts (Hotel Consultant Serge Obolensky, former Secretary of the Navy Fred Korth) provoke speculation in gossip columns, but friends insist that she does not plan to marry again. Her schedule would scarcely leave her time...