Word: questioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...G.O.P. delegates. The indication then was that Nixon could expect 688 first-ballot votes, or 21 more than necessary for the nomination (TIME, July 5). A recheck last week showed a slight erosion of that strength and enough uncertainty in some states to put a first-ballot nomination in question...
...Bayreuth in Danger?" The question, posed by Munich's Abendzeitung, may have seemed strange as the little Bavarian town of Bayreuth prepared last week for its annual Wagner festival. Hotels were doubling their rates; black marketeers were getting an all-time high of $500 for tickets; and economically at least, the institution created by Richard Wagner in 1876 to perpetuate his works and ideals was thriving as never before...
...likely to keep growing as a tropical rain forest," declares Nat Owings. "There is no possibility of their dying. They are viable, they are vibrant and their growth is rank." By the year 2000, some 400 million Americans will be living in roughly the same areas as today. The question is: Can they do so and remain more or less human? "The answer," says Owings, "has to be yes, and the strategy of accomplishment must come in the next 15 years. The urgency is greater than that of developing the atomic bomb in the 1940s or reaching the moon...
...thorniest question for most companies is where to draw the line on miniskirts. In a survey conducted by the Administrative Management Society, 52% of the 372 firms polled had no objections to skirts two to three inches above the knee. But most frowned on the micro-miniskirt, which one executive defined as the "for-goodness'-sake-don't-bend-over style." Nowhere do miniskirts raise more eyebrows than in the Ford Foundation's new Manhattan headquarters, where secretaries work in glass-enclosed offices. Overcome by a sudden sense of modesty, one secretary, perched at a graceful...
...Board" charged that Morgan Grenfell and Cazenove had violated its code. But shortly thereafter, the board admitted that it really had no enforcement powers. At week's end the City was treated to the spectacle of an emasculated board that reversed itself and decided that the companies in question "were within the letter and spirit of the code." American had won Gallaher's. But the end result seemed likely to be the establishment of a new and separate agency to preside over all mergers involving British companies and foreign investors...