Word: makes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning to belief in God. Janáček answered with a bristling postcard: "No old man, no believer. Not till I see for myself." Janáček stuck by his unbeliefs till the last. As he lay dying, a nurse asked him if he would like to make his peace with God. "Nurse," Janáček firmly replied, "you probably don't know...
...Jimmy Durante. Coming up are four more guest shots, and an Arte Johnson special is on tape and ready to be run. NBC is also deep in discussion of an "Arte Johnson Show" for next season, which would not only pull Arte from the Laugh-In ranks but make him a guest star on any return visits...
...London, the name is the Onion, although the look is slightly French-fried. It is the tendrils, insists Stylist Michael of the Michael-John salon, that make the look work. "You have to have softness-a few strands at the sides like those Degas ladies, or you get an effect that is either too Japanese or too much old schoolteacher...
...reflect the Federal Reserve's squeeze on credit. Banks are curtailing bond buying and mortgage lending in order to conserve scarce funds for direct loans to business. Insurance companies, which are normally major buyers of bonds and mortgages, are being drained of cash by loans that they must make to policyholders who cannot get credit so cheaply elsewhere. But the bond-mortgage slump reflects even more the ravages of inflation. Corporations, for example, are hurrying to build new plants before construction costs rise even further (see following story), and are selling huge quantities of new bonds to raise...
What Is High? Simultaneously, inflation makes bonds or mortgages unattractive investments. If prices kept on rising during the 20 to 40 years that investors often must wait for full repayment of principal, investors eventually would get back dollars worth much less than those they originally lent. Meanwhile, interest rates would keep on climbing-to levels that might make even today's yields look piddling because lenders would demand even higher returns to keep ahead of prices. (Some mortgage lenders now grumble that they are "stuck" with loans made years ago at interest that seemed high then...