Word: kept
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reading, young Symington was an indifferent student in both high school and college days. A stubborn refusal to take a required mathematics course kept him from getting his Yale A.B. with the rest of his class in 1923 (Yale finally relented and gave him his degree 22 years later...
...stress fracture has probably finished Benjamin for the season. Benjamin developed rapidly this fall, and was beginning to remind cross country followers of his brother dyke, the 1958 Heps champion and an all-time Crimson great. His injury, ironically, is similar to the one that kept his brother out of winter track...
...current blacklist, drawn up in Cairo, names 48 American firms. Included are Empire Brushes Inc., Kaiser Industries Corp., Dow Chemical Co. and Plough Sales Corp., because they have branches or agencies in Israel. Individual Arab countries have their own blacklists, which are even more capriciously kept. Philco radios and air conditioners were banned in Saudi Arabia even after the firm's name was removed from the Arab League blacklist. Last February, after Elizabeth Taylor bought $100,000 worth of Israeli bonds, the United Arab Republic banned any further showing of her films in Syria and Egypt. Presumably the boycott...
...last six years, the Army Quartermaster Corps has been boasting about steaks, eggs, and other perishable foods preserved by the glamorous atomic-age process of putting them in plastic envelopes and shooting gamma or beta rays through them. The foods looked fine, tasted pretty good, and they could be kept edible without refrigeration practically forever, because all the microorganisms in them had been done to death by radiation. The Army proudly fed irradiated meals to newspapermen, top brass, and 20 Congressmen. Last week, with some embarrassment, the Army announced that it was shelving a $7,500,000 irradiated-food plant...
Attracting the Elite. Bird Dog Alexander has kept his bank on the path that has always been the specialty of both J. P. Morgan and Guaranty: catering to the top level of business, finance and government. Morgan Guaranty is the biggest U.S. bank that is strictly "wholesale"-and one of the few wholesale banks left. Says Alexander:"We don't want to be just another big bank. We want to be a special kind of bank, where all the expertness that American business wants can be found...