Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preventive Measures. Others continued to replay the events of Nov. 22, 1963, and June 5, 1968, as if to exorcise a demon from the national spirit. No fewer than nine new books were on the market in the U.S. eulogizing John or Robert Kennedy, or probing their assassinations. In Russia, Anatoly Gromyko, son of Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, published a mildly sympathetic study on J.F.K.-the first book-length examination of any kind to be printed in the Soviet Union-entitled The 1036 Days of President Kennedy, borrowing heavily from Arthur Schlesinger and Theodore Sorensen, but mostly picturing...
...stunning act of defiance against the world's financial experts and the seeming necessity of events, he refused to devalue the franc by one centime. Compared with De Gaulle's other famous nons-his withdrawal from NATO and his vetoes of British admission to the Common Market-the refusal to devalue was, perhaps, not of equal importance but certainly even more surprising. It was also perhaps his greatest gamble. At stake was not only the pride and economic power of France but also the stability of the free world's monetary system, on whose smooth, uninterrupted functioning...
...that it was pulling other currencies off balance. By refusing to devalue, De Gaulle could perhaps bring about a situation in which the Germans would be frightened into increasing the exchange rate of the mark. That would automatically strengthen the franc by making German goods dearer on the world market. De Gaulle also knew that a devaluation would frighten the French, reminding them of the financial instability of the Fourth Republic before he came to France's rescue...
Mirko s right when he denies stardom. To play Helen Hayes in the mid-twentieth century are scene which revolves around the blatantly rich New York market one must dream up a revolutionary original concept of art. There's Jackson Pollock, of course, who gave the physical making process so much more prominence than Mirko ever does. And there's Morris Louis, whose name and stripes of color are better known at Harvard than is Mirko. The action painter, the flat painter, the minimalist, the happening-creator, the sculptor of simple geometric forms at superhuman scale (Tony Smith...
...easily. Thus they can use the aid of the Lytton holding company, which, thanks to its listing on the New York Stock Exchange, has readier access to Wall Street money. Even so, Wellman had to offer investors some tempting bait. They will pay substantially less than the current market price for the Lytton stock, which closed last week at $11.50 a share...