Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...height of the Communists' savage Viet Nam offensive, Lyndon Johnson's low-key performance was a cool effort to mask one of the most trying weeks of a crisis-ridden presidency. Amid all the tumult around him, Johnson still found time to chat amiably with West Berlin Mayor Klaus Schütze, make yet another plea for a 10% income tax surcharge, and present the Heart of the Year Award to Actress Patricia Neal, who suffered three near-fatal strokes three years...
...have also prevented another invasion force dug into the port town of Calabar from crossing a channel and taking the town of Oron. Federal MIG fighters, flown mostly by Egyptian and other mercenary pilots, rarely hit much of strategic value with their bombs; since they do not risk flying low enough to ensure accuracy, stray bombs at times land on hospitals and schools...
Brisk Turnover. Among many cost-cutting techniques, Cantor has installed a centralized-buying operation, in which cash registers at key discount stores keep itemized sales records on tape for processing by a Manhattan computer. When stocks run low on a particular item, the computer automatically reorders it from the manufacturer. Store personnel can thus be freed from time-consuming inventory taking, and shelves are kept supplied for a brisk, six-times-yearly stock turnover, compared with three times for department stores...
...Sunset thankfully stripped of most of its money-losing ventures, Commonwealth is eagerly looking ahead to expansion in oil, motion pictures and service industries for its next growth. As a start, the company agreed last month to buy Hollywood's Television Enterprises Corp., a privately owned maker of low-budget films. Since the divorce plan was divulged, Sunasco shares have gone from a December low of $7.63 on the New York Stock Exchange to $9.38 last week. For sheer corporate melodrama, Rozet's rescue might make a film itself...
...instant obscurity. A case in point is Marty Scorsese, 25, an N.Y.U. film-school graduate whose It's Not Just You, Murray won a first prize at the 1965 student festival-and might just well be the best university movie ever made. A 14-minute comic synopsis of low-class urban life that is vaguely reminiscent of Fellini's work, Murray is the picaresque tale of a vulpine conman who rises from petty-ante rumrunner to gunsel...