Word: mainstays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mills, he was tapped to head E.M.I, in 1954 because of his managerial skills, profitably reorganized and diversified the company. E.M.I. subsidiaries now turn out electronic equipment that ranges from missile guidance systems to hearing aids, make a quarter of Britain's refrigerators. But records are still a mainstay of the business. E.M.I, dominates the European popular music market with its labels (Parlophone, His Master's Voice, Odeon, Pathe), also has a strong hold on the single-disk U.S. market through Capitol Records, which last week an nounced a 17% sales rise largely due to Beatle records. What...
...Techniques of Reading, a widely used textbook for college freshmen who want to learn how to read faster and with more comprehension. A onetime bureaucrat (as a civilian employee of the U.S. military in Berlin), reading teacher, book manuscript editor, advertising copywriter and account executive, Judson is now a mainstay of TIME'S BOOKS staff. As might be expected, he reads faster than most people, but he considers himself slow as a writer, spent some 70 hours at the typewriter on the Faulkner story...
...American system of criminal prosecution," wrote Justice William Brennan, "is accusatorial, not inquisitorial, and the Fifth Amendment is its essential mainstay." With those words, Brennan last week announced the Supreme Court's decision to reverse the contempt conviction of a small-time Connecticut 52-year-old gambler named William Malloy and extend the protection of the Fifth Amendment's privilege against self-incrimination to witnesses and defendants, whatever their status, in all state courts...
Straus served as Crimson Captain last season and graduated in June. He was the mainstay of the defense at the important "crease" position, using his size and speed to excellent advantage against the shiftiest of attackmen...
Harvard's Dave Dooley did the best fencing of his career as he racked up a pair of wins in the foil. Kent Brittan's accurate point scored two touches in epee, while Paul Zygas, mainstay on the sabre team, gave the Crimson another two wins...