Word: picking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things have sure come to a pretty come-off when adult minds have to pick up The Rabbit's Wedding [June 1], a book intended solely for children, to try to gain a point in biased thinking...
Defense Secretary McElroy, 54, who has long yearned to float back to Procter & Gamble (his last salary there: $285,000) to pick up the Cheerful chairmanship and rescue his bobbing stock options, re-evaluated his stand in the light of Quarles's death, said: "I will certainly be here in December." In fact, he will probably stay on the job until around February 1960, help present the defense budget to Congress...
...seems incredible that any sober adult could scent in this fuzzy cottontale for children the overtones of Karl Marx or even of Martin Luther King. But last week in Florida, Columnist Henry Balch thundered in the Orlando Sentinel (circ. 100,000): "As soon as you pick up the book, you realize these rabbits are integrated. One of the techniques of brainwashing is conditioning minds to accept what the brainwashers want accepted." In Alabama, State Senator E. O. Eddins agreed: "This book should be taken off the shelves and burned." Off it went from the regular shelves of the Alabama Public...
...needed soon. Salazar refused their request and went before television cameras at week's end to insist that the great mass of the Portuguese people are behind him. But reports of his imminent departure persisted. If he is really bent on getting out, he would want to hand-pick his successor. Likely candidates: respected ex-President Francisco Higino Craveiro Lopes, known as "The Man Who Never Smiles," and strapping (6 ft. 2 in.) Pedro Teotonio Pereira, Salazar's right-hand man and current Minister of the Presidency. Pereira once quarreled with Salazar but has since made his peace...
...Jones industrial average, point out that the top five common stock funds just kept pace with the averages in the seven-year bull market. But Broker Arthur Weisenberger, the Boswell of the industry, whose brokerage house puts out the definitive yearbook of the funds, argues that an investor could pick a slow mover even in the stocks in the blue-chip Dow-Jones averages. Only 14 of the 30 stocks have done as well as the 229% gain in the averages in the last ten years...