Word: poring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Defense Attorney James Hudson, 36, had his own explanation for his clients' conduct. "These pore little old country boys," Hudson told the all-white jury, "entered into a conspiracy all right-a conspiracy to protect you and me, to keep racial violence from tearing apart Athens, Georgia." Whether the jury was convinced remained a secret. Though a verdict was reached, U.S. District Judge William A. Bootle ordered it sealed, pending this week's trial-on the same federal conspiracy charges-of three other Athens Klansmen accused of harassing Negroes...
...many readers do know the difference that Hot Rod has the distinction of being the most dog-eared magazine in the U.S. More than twelve car buffs pore over each copy, reports W. R. Simmons research company, which conducts readership studies for magazine publishers. Petersen's Motor Trend (monthly circ. 500,000) is not far behind, with 9.02 readers per copy. A sort of high-power consumer magazine, it "is for the average fellow with an above-average interest in autos," says Petersen. Car Craft, Rod & Custom, and Sports Car Graphic cover the other auto buffs Petersen could think...
...wonks from now till doomsday and they'd still be number one," said John Potter '66, a member of the Phoenix SK Club. A member of another club confided, "No one will say it in the open, but every damn one of us would rather be in the Pore...
Eurofinance men pore over speeches, annual reports, newspaper stories and miscellany for clues to corporate activity, maintain 10,000 files on British and Continental companies. The firm's 20 analysts and four economists, most of whom hold doctorates and speak three or four languages, piece together all the items they can find on a company being surveyed, spend up to six months preparing a preliminary report. When this work is done, they take their findings to the company for comment-and usually hit so close that the company is impressed enough to cooperate. Says Hungarian-born Deputy Director Anthony...
...case of jazz and Faulkner, Europeans pride themselves on having discovered an American art form long before Americans got around to recognizing it. At comics clubs, which have sprung up in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, zealous members pore over antique editions of American comics (old strips now fetch about $50 each), discuss by the hour the imperialism of The Phantom or the anarchism of Li'I Abner...