Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with quite such crisp efficiency as Adams did. But perhaps because they like him better Congressmen consider him by far the more effective of the two. Says a White House staffer: "The problem at the White House is 'erosion' of good relations. Jerry tries to keep irritation to a minimum...
...wire by a secretary. He takes virtually every incoming call ("When I get to Arlington National Cemetery," he sighs, "I'll stop taking them"), even encourages the last little argument, sometimes past the point of productivity. To Persons, it is all part of his job of keeping himself informed-so he can help keep the President informed. "When I am dealing with the President's business," says Jerry Persons, "I am not going to act without adequate consideration. I may take a little bit more of his time, but I want to be sure...
...news conference last week. "Here is a place where labor and management must show statesmanship," said the President, making an almost unprecedented statement on labor-management negotiations specifically impending. The "measure of their statesmanship" will be to see that steel prices do not go up. The Government should keep out of "the business of collective bargaining," said Ike, but if the U.S. is going to preserve its free economy, labor and management, particularly steel labor and management, will have to remember that "the whole public is affected by everything they...
...trading boiled to 3,520,000 shares, highest since 1929 and equal to 93% of that day's volume on the New York Stock Exchange. So far this year, volume has equaled 53% of the New York Stock Exchange's, v. 32% last year. Unable to keep pace with the new popularity, the AmEx tape often trails five, ten, even 25 minutes behind. Its nearly 1,300 tickers, which transmit prices to 215 cities, print only 300 characters a minute. But able AmEx President Edward ("Ted") McCormick, 49, a onetime SECommissioner who has brought the AmEx a long...
Author Biely is a crafty storyteller who can keep a reader flipping the pages while whipping up an intellectual storm. As he describes St. Petersburg in 1905; it is a city where icy water licks morose granite foundations. In prose that seems jittery at first, then calculated, Biely moves from a fashionable masquerade ball to the roach-ridden headquarters of the revolutionary gang; he works the weather and the face of the chaotic city into his story so firmly that at last they seem as important and ominous as any character in the book. When the bomb finally goes...