Word: item
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Other Newhouse papers in the area: The Huntsville (Ala.) Times and Birmingham News, bought in 1955, the New Orleans Times-Picayune and States-Item, both bought...
...cause of all this excitement was the simple soybean, the hottest item in the seething U.S. commodities market. Last week futures for soybeans, soybean oil and soybean meal set seasonal records after a month of wild trading. A cool speculator who decided to hold on to his contracts for the month could have tripled his money. In trading last week price changes twice reached the permissible daily limit of 10? per bu., and to take the heat out of the market the Board of Trade has doubled in stages the margin required of a trader...
...movies shown to the Society of Biological Psychiatry, it was clear that some patients, after taking Cylert, made more accurate drawings of objects recently shown to them, showed more decisiveness about what they remembered, and recalled things faster than those who had taken a placebo. On a standard seven-item memory test, most of the men under 70 showed a significant improvement in memory for visual presentations (like the drawing test) and for pairing of words (such as "baby" and "cries...
Quite by coincidence, the 15 NATO nations chose the day to begin their semiannual foreign ministers meeting. On the agenda of the Allies, who formed their pact in fear in 1949 to face the deadly challenge of Soviet expansion, was not one single grim item of cold war business. Indeed, when they sat down in the modernistic Palais des Congrès on a hilltop in Brussels, their principal problem was France, not Russia, and most of the rest of the discussion was concerned with devising some sort of rapprochement with Eastern Europe...
...full of the gossip that the preacher would be marrying Corrine Annette Huff, 25, a onetime Miss Ohio who was the first Negro to compete in the Miss U.S.A. contest. "Absolutely untrue," fumed Adam when the story caught up with him on a European junket. Having thus squelched the item, he flew off to attend a labor conference in Geneva. Right beside him was the apple he calls "Huffie," who labors away as an assistant to Adam's House Education and Labor Committee, at $18,600 per annum...