Word: list
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Maher divide 10 to 15 volunteers into boy and girl pairs. They work for a few hours and come back and discuss their experiences. A pair will cover from four to a dozen homes per day. The organizers have covered nearly 400 homes so far, Grizzard said. The list of 1-A's is available at local draft boards, and the homes visited are confined to this list...
...obvious fear of many Democrats is, as one put it, "if I don't sign this card, I will probably be barred from ever getting a Federal job here, and probably a state one also." Governor King flatly denies that the list will be used to discriminate against mavericks. But he adds, ominously, "We don't have many people; everyone knows each other; we don't need the card to determine who is pro-Johnson and who is against...
...chart-covered offices of banks, brokerages and mutual funds, computers constantly scan the stock lists to spot companies or entire industries that appear to be breaking out of their usual earnings pattern. Once an uptrend is noted, word quickly gets around; analysts go to the same meetings, tend to eat at the same places. They constantly talk with each other on local or long-distance phones. Brokerage houses also pass on their research findings to mutual funds and other institutions in hope of landing their enormous commission business. Says an officer of one Boston-based mutual fund: "A stock often...
...novelist invented a character like Lord Byron, he would be set down as an opportunistic fictioneer with an eye on the bestseller list. Byron, after all, was almost too much. He was a good if not great poet; he was handsome; he could swim the Hellespont, even with a game leg; he had affairs with men as well as women including, some believe, his half sister. He was also a political rebel. When he died at 34 in Missolonghi, Greece, he was planning and financing a revolt against the Turkish oppressors...
...President must also decide about graduate school deferments. The Interagency Advisory Committee recommended to him a wide list of fields to be deferred. Labor Secretary W. Willard Wirtz is against such deferments...