Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defendant's probable witnesses before a secret grand jury, thus discover his case before the trial, and even pressure him into pleading guilty and skipping the trial altogether. By contrast, the prosecutor's case may remain unknown until his witnesses testify in open court, perhaps too late for the defense to mount an effective cross-examination or rebuttal...
...Delicate Balance. A character in the new play with which Edward Albee opens the Broadway season is somewhat shocked to find himself drinking whisky before breakfast. Says another character reassuringly: "Think of it as very late at night." The lateness of the night, the thirst of the soul, the solitary anguish of the self-these have always been the prevailing mood winds of Albee's plays. But he cannot construct a credible plot in which to trap them, and he fails again in Balance...
...following abdominal surgery; in Neuilly, France. Sometimes brilliant, always outspoken, Reynaud was one of history's political unfortunates. Through the 1930s, he and other moderate conservatives warned in vain about the growing Nazi threat; when he finally came to power in the spring of 1940, it was too late for anything except to preside over the fall of France -which is how Frenchmen remember him, though they might also note that he started Charles de Gaulle on his way with an appointment in 1940 as Under Secretary of State for Defense...
...cashing in the stock that they wish to dispose of, sophisticated traders often go short in it and cover by delivering their own stock on Ian. 2, thereby putting Off tax payments on their profits for twelve months. "Selling against the box" usually causes the short interest to rise late in the year and fall in January. Short interest also tends to rise when many major mergers are under negotiation; some traders go both long and short on stocks in companies involved in merger talks to profit from differences between the market prices of the shares and what they stand...
...been said that we are all Keynesians now," writes Robert Lekachman, borrowing the heading of TIME'S cover story (Dec. 31) on the late John Maynard Keynes. Now that Keynes has been embraced by politicians and popularized by journalists, the academicians are eager to assess again the ideas of the 20th century's most influential economist. Lekachman, head of the economics department at the State University of New York at Stony Brook, is the first American to analyze at book length Keynes's life and work and the impact of his thinking on contemporary times...