Word: periodical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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OLIVER. A gleaming Christmas package of a musical. Dickens' reformist outrage is gone, but in its place are some lovely period costumes, some excellent songs by Lionel Bart and a collection of perfectly stunning sets designed by John Box. Carol Reed directs a large cast (including Ron Moody, Shani Wallis and Mark Lester as Oliver) with wizardry precision...
...reliability tests that extended over a period of five years, Aerojet and NASA technicians fired SPS engines some 3,200 times without a malfunction before qualifying them for manned flight. Although the total firing time on the Apollo 8 mission was scheduled to take no more than seven or eight minutes, the combustion chamber was designed to operate for 121 minutes. During tests, it actually held up for more than 30 minutes without burning...
With Jan. 20 and its problems almost upon him, Nixon was determined last week to enjoy a final period of privacy and relaxation. After giving Daughter Julie in marriage to David Eisenhower, the President-elect left frigid, flu-ridden New York (he had a mild case himself) for Key Biscayne, Fla. He has purchased adjacent homes there that will serve both as a winter White House and a legal residence; the Nixons are planning to sell their cooperative apartment on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue. Apart from a single meeting with foreign-policy advisers in Florida late in the week...
Discount Prices. Last week Mates suffered an abrupt setback. He was threatened with a sudden run on his fund by investors wanting to turn their shares in for cash, and got unprecedented permission from the Securities and Exchange Commission to shut down for an "indefinite" period. With that, some 3,000 shareholders were locked into the fund. Though Mates' fund is a fairly small, if certainly spectacular member of the U.S. mutual-fund business (total assets: $55 billion), his travail is likely to make investors just a bit more skeptical about some forms of investment...
Though the Election Year rhetoric has subsided, law and order - one of the big issues in the campaign - remains a national concern. Last week the FBI reported that crime in the U.S. rose 19% in the first nine months of 1968 over the same period last year. Most of this crime occurs in the nation's larger cities, and a good portion of it during the predawn hours, when most citizens are home in bed. Presumably, police would be as alert in the early morning as at any other time. Yet the sorry fact is that while the cities...