Word: keenness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposal is unlikely to win much support for France. The major nations hold substantial reserves in dollars and pounds, and any weakening of those currencies would hurt them too. De Gaulle's scheme has at least lent urgency to the debate over the world monetary system. Britain is keen to revise that system, and last week Lyndon Johnson pointed out that the U.S. is exploring means of broadening the base for international finance (see U.S. BUSINESS). The majority of financial policymakers believe that new monetary reserves must be created, but the problem is what kind of reserves. The French...
American Tobacco has had a keen taste for just such a company. Earlier last week President Robert Barney Walker announced record American sales ($1.2 billion) and earnings ($73 million). Such income swelled an already bulging cash drawer. At the same time, with cigarettes under medical fire and new brands proliferating, the major tobacco companies have been anxiously diversifying. Two weeks ago Reynolds announced that it would spend $100 million to buy Penick & Ford Ltd., Inc., a corn-oil refiner whose products include My-T-Fine desserts, Vermont Maid syrup and Cocomalt. Liggett & Myers last year paid $15 million for Alpo...
Piatigorsky notes that many a conductor who seems "desperately in love with music" was not notably enraptured by it when he was an obscure member of the orchestra. The maestro simply develops a keen sense of ownership: "Isn't my orchestra wonderful? Do you know my Ravel, my Tchaikovsky, my Brahms?" All the same, Piatigorsky asks: "How is it that a man who never conducted or studied conducting is capable of giving an acceptable performance without warning and on the spur of the moment? No one can expect a comparable feat on any instrument...
After Ten Failures. Rh sensitization is a more frequent cause of childlessness in countries where tropical anemias are treated by transfusions that may be mismatched, which explains the keen interest in embryatrics in South America. But there are so many cases in North America that it is being tried in at least two medical centers in New York City, and at others in Rochester, N.Y., Boston, Denver, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Winnipeg. About half of the hundred or more babies treated have been saved. Last month the University of California's Dr. Jimmie Alf Westberg flew to Phoenix...
Edward Albee's new play, Tiny Alice, is the most controversial dramatic puzzle to arrive on Broadway since The Cocktail Party. Over lunches and dinners, from Keen's English Chop House to the Forum of the Twelve Expense Accounts, the table talk of the town is Albee's darkling play about a rich and erotic woman who corrupts a pietistic and virginal man of the church (John Gielgud), seduces him into marrying her, then abandons him on their marriage night, but not before she causes him to be pistol-murdered by one of three confidants, including...