Word: much
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...summer months; the word alabaster will be appropriate beginning midway through the month of November." The real problem, however, was in the quality of the writing. "Everybody has the feeling they can write a bestseller," says McGrady. "But it simply isn't true. Some of the chapters were much too good, and I had to work like hell to make them bad enough...
...tendency of small investors in a declining market to with draw from direct trading and turn their business over to mutual funds and other professional investment management services (see following story). A great deal of Wall Street's retrenching involves firms that rely on retail brokerage for much of their revenue. So far this year, Manhattan-based H. Hentz & Co. has closed five of its 38 branches. Blair & Co. has dismissed 45 employees, and Thomson & McKinnon has furloughed 40 employees and suspended its training program for salesmen. Last week, Francis I duPont & Co., No. 3 among the nation...
...funds, whose young managers hopped from fad to fad, making quick gains on chicken franchises or computer-leasing companies. These smaller investment funds, which rose rapidly in the highly speculative markets of 1967 and 1968, have fallen sharply in the recent market slide. This year, U.S. Trust has done much better than most of the newer, smaller investment institutions. It has-as it usually does-outperformed the market averages by about...
Those filmgoers who have read the Quartet will be somewhat baffled by much of the plot and motivation in the film; those who have not will be completely and hopelessly confused. The first -and better-part of Justine is devoted mostly to atmospherics, establishing the characters and their relationships with one another and the city of Alexandria. Director George Cukor had a good old-fashioned time sweeping his camera over studio-made streets and palaces, working himself up to a murder at a masked ball. After that, he and Screenwriter Marcus apparently decided that it was time to get down...
...ready to swim. Nursing for two years on mother's milk, the little leviathan will gain seven pounds a day. Sexual maturity will arrive at the age of nine, but he will not reach full growth until he is 30 to 45. Then he may be as much as 60 feet long and 60 tons in weight. He will be able to cruise at six knots; in a panic he can do 20. When he is hungry, he will dive for as long as 1¼ hours at a time, eat up to two tons of whatever seafood...