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...field, this shortcoming has been especially galling, for there was a time when the city had two of the best collections in the country. Unhappily for New Yorkers, the pioneering collection of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller ended up in Williamsburg, Va., and the collection of Electra Havemeyer Webb became the nucleus of the Shelburne Museum in Vermont...
...chairman pointed out that the free world already has more than 100 organized markets in which international corporate securities can be traded. Though mostly small by comparison with the great stock exchanges of London, Paris, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and New York, he said, "even the smallest provides a nucleus for bringing together the technical skills and understanding required for intelligent investment and efficient distribution of the shares of the worldwide corporation...
Fundamental to Crimson hopes for a successful season are the performances of veterans Ed Hamlin and Eddie Meehan. Two of last year's "big three" (along with the now graduated Mark Mullin.) Hamlin and Meehan will form the nucleus of the new squad--if they can stay healthy...
...taking over the G.O.P. leadership in 1958. In 1960 Republican Robert L. Gavin managed to poll 46% of the vote for Governor. Cheered on by Cobb, nearly 1,000 delegates showed up at the annual state convention in March-nearly twice the expected number. Declared Cobb: "We are the nucleus of a political bombshell that can go off at any time...
...clogged with gleaming SEATs, the Spanish-made version of the Italian Fiat. The cars are still largely for the rich; a better index to the general improvement is the horde of buzzing motor scooters steered dauntlessly through the city streets by clerks, factory foremen, salesmen, shopkeepers - the nucleus of the new middle class slowly taking shape in Spain...