Word: nicks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...approvingly at Skouras' elbow was the man who has prodded all the shipping executives to search for new solutions: Nicholas Johnson, a 30-year-old landlubber and former law professor (at the University of California), who was named Maritime Administrator 18 months ago by Lyndon Johnson (no kin). Nick Johnson has been suggesting ideas that are more drastic than any ever voiced by his predecessors, including the first head of the Maritime Administration, Joseph P. Kennedy...
Safely back in Saigon, Associated Press Photographer Horst Faas put his pictures on the Wirephoto transmitter, rubbed a shrapnel nick on the back of his pudgy hand, and mused: "If they had used more mortars, they would have killed us all." His venture into a jungle village two weeks ago was only one example of Faas's daring and reourcefulness in getting the most poignant war photos that have come out of Viet Nam. He likes to show his latest pictures to anyone who will look. "That," he says with fierce pride, "is a Horst Faas picture...
Following this, and also directed by Ken Sateriale, is Saroyan's The Ping Pong Players which is best glossed over. Nick Fuller and Miss DeMott do an adequate job with what is at hand, but as Saroyan states, it is a trivial play about trivial people. An attempt at fancy, it is artificial and drab...
...giants as Dorman, Long & Co., Stewarts & Lloyds, and the Steel Co. of Wales. This partial takeover is a departure from Labor's brief experiment in 1951, when it attempted to buy up all steel-producing firms, large and small. Even so, the cost of compensation is expected to nick the government some $5.6 billion...
Biff chuckled quietly at the nick-name, but stopped abruptly. Like some great bear trap, his mind had snapped into action. "Of course! the Bronze Rhinoceros is a nickname!" Just at that moment Bundle looked up and saw an immense dark--skinned man lumber down the University Hall steps. All at once the jig-saw pieces fit together, and Bundie knew he was right. He dashed behind the building and cautiously peered around the corner...