Word: peakes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Since the professed goal of Yoga is "molding the body and harmonizing its movements," Moynahan repeatedly urged his students to be conscious of the internal movements of their body as they rested. Incidental benefits of the exercises, he said, are "ellimination of fat and sag, peak beauty, peak health, so colds, no insomnia, no constipation, etc." "Peddle air--it up the old leg muscles and firms up these thighs," Yogaman Ted Moynahan advises one of his young pretages in Cabot Hall, Moynahan also had the girls looking like limpid pools and cobras "Some of them are just marvelous--they catch...
...Jones index has risen 40% since June 1962, and the market is on much firmer ground than it was at the time of its previous peak in December 1961. The average price of stocks in the Dow-Jones average is 19 times per-share earnings now v. 25 times earnings then. Of the 30 Dow-Jones blue chips, 18 are selling for less now than at the end of 1961, although their profits are generally higher. (The index is up largely because of strong gains by eight stocks: Chrysler, G.M., International Harvester, General Electric, Texaco, Standard Oil of New Jersey...
...first section conveys the energy of Spain through small details (leaves "glistened on the damp earth like freshly minted gold florins") and longer passages ("the light limped from rock to rock on its way like a wounded bird on its way upward. For a moment, it rested on the peak of the opposite mountain, seemed to pirouette upward, then disappeared. The mute murmur of evening, like the tigress's melody, enveloped the monastery"). Naturally, Kazantzakis chooses more brutal images in the second section, as when Madrid's "divine, sun-washed body was dissolving" during a bombing...
...economy will keep on expanding through 1964's first half. Turning to the present, not the future, Dillon reckoned that in 1963's third quarter, corporate profits rose 11% from a year ago to an annual rate of $27 billion after taxes, close to the peak of $27.8 billion reached during the Korean war. The Government expects that profits will continue to gain during the rest of the year (see chart...
Died. Adolphe Menjou, 73, Hollywood's type-cast boulevardier and self-styled arbiter of sartorial elegance, the Pittsburgh-born son of an immigrant hotel manager, who became king of the silver screen's lounge lizards with A Woman of Paris in 1923, at his peak earned $200,000 a year and spent a good chunk of it replenishing a 2,000-item wardrobe (plum bowlers, mauve gloves, light grey dinner clothes), later turned to meatier roles, beginning as the city editor of The Front Page (1930) and ending as the unkempt eccentric of Pollyanna (1960), yet forever maintained...