Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gave her a full scholarship. Graduated in 1961, she had already made a successful Town Hall debut and been featured in a number of major concerts and recitals. She had also won $30,000 in a string of musical contests. "I always picked the one that gave the most money," Verrett says...
...conventional. "I'd really like to do a season of repertory with Shaw," he muses. "We'd do a Shakespeare, a new play, a revival of The Caretaker." And, he adds, with that alley-cat smile: "If we couldn't find somebody to put up the money, we'd do it ourselves, with the money from the glossy movies...
Pleasence admits to being typecast as a sinister psychopath in what he calls "glossy movies," such as You Only Live Twice and The Night of the Generals. He doesn't mind, partly because "evil people seem more interesting," partly because of the money he can make. This means a house on the Thames, with a boat at the bottom of the garden and plenty of elbowroom for his wife and two young daughters...
...cover the 1965 disturbances at Selma, Ala. The Journal and the Constitution are each allowed only one correspondent in Washington, and the correspondent's activity is largely restricted to reporting the utterances of Georgia's Senators and Congressmen. Patterson and other editors have argued for more money for their staffs and more coverage of the news, but their efforts have met with little success...
...Board has slipped below its spring torrent. The bulls point to such rosy predictions as last week's forecast by the National Association of Business Economists that the economy faces only a "brief hesitation late this year and early in 1969." Moreover, say the bulls, so much money is pouring into the coffers of institutional investors that they will be forced to step up their stock purchasing. Somewhat surprisingly, mutual funds actually sold off some $124 million worth of stocks during August, despite the market rise. According to figures from the Investment Company Institute, the selloff lifted the mutuals...