Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILLAIS AND THE RUSKINS, by Mary Lutyens. Private Lives, Victorian style, raised to the level of art, by the author's skill and the writing ability of Critic John Ruskin and his wife...
...more mundane level, France's political malaise has had direct economic consequences. At the moment, France is seized by a giant buying spree. Fearing an eventual devaluation of the franc, Frenchmen are sinking their savings into goods. Two months ago, there were 10,000 color-television sets in all of France; now there are 70,000. Washing machines, record players and other appliances are being snapped up at a similar pace. Peugeot is receiving 500 orders a day for its most expensive ($3,000) model, the new 504, even though it can produce only...
Perhaps more significant than such major concerts by well-known artists are the thousands of more modest Bach performances, ranging down to the smallest towns and the merest amateur level. Here Bach is pervasive. Following the pattern set by the present-day chorus at Bach's own St. Thomas Church in Leipzig, church and community choirs throughout the Western world are marking Christmas by singing something of Bach's, even if only a two-minute chorale. And what church organist will let Christmas-or any other week-go by without playing at least one Bach prelude or perhaps...
...greatest growth industries. On the Big Board, the year's volume jumped 20% to a tape-taxing record of nearly 3 billion shares. The torrent swamped securities-delivery channels, spurring belated efforts to computerize archaic clerical procedures. All the trading also lifted Wall Street profits to a level that even Big Board officials consider embarrassing. Brokerage commissions reached about $5 billion, and some top customers' men earned as much as $500,000 each. Prodded by the Securities and Exchange Commission, the New York Stock Exchange cut commissions by 7% on orders of 1,000 shares or more. Unless...
That job goes with the U.S. Steel chairmanship, but Blough never seemed fully comfortable in the statesman's role. American steelmakers have been beset by many problems, notably the rising level of steel imports, which this year will capture about 16% of the U.S. market. Privately, steelmen have often faulted Blough for issuing terse press releases instead of fully articulating the industry's position on trade and other matters of public policy. Blough's effectiveness in Government relations was further impaired by his 1962 steel-price showdown with President Kennedy-after which J.F.K. complained: "My father always...