Word: reckonings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Best Studio, Worst Production." Lehman and Lazard Freres own 150,000 shares of Loew's stock outright, reckon they can count on the stock support of several hundred thousand shares held by their customers and friends, 144,000 shares held by Affiliated Fund Investment Trust, 262,000 held by Manhattan Brokers Thomson & McKinnon for an unidentified Canadian group, some 150,000 shares claimed to be represented by Manhattan Attorney Ben Javits (brother of New York's Attorney-General Jacob Javits), more than 200,000 shares held by customers and associates of Manhattan Broker Arthur Wiesenberger, about...
Whatever one thinks of Vellucci's proposals, the Councillor has definitely become a force to reckon with in the Cambridge community. Whenever Harvard or M.I.T. plans a project which requires any sort of delicate negotiating, the utmost care is taken to shield proceedings from the eye of the Councillor. As one M.I.T. spokesman said recently, "You just can't imagine what a cramp he can put in things when he starts poking around...
Most Government economists reckon that the big strike's chain reactions will be confined largely to steel-producing areas; the overall U.S. economy is too strong to be seriously staggered. A two-week strike, say the economists, would have very little effect on manufacturing because inventories (except in specialized heavy construction) are comfortably large. On the union side of the picture, many a millhand, his vacation pay already earned, is delighted to escape the blistering heat of the plants in July...
...Devil. There is one other choice: alliance with the fellow-traveling Nenni Socialists. "The Christian Democrats must reckon with us, and we must reckon with them," Nenni said expansively. "Our terms will not be exorbitant...
Successful as South Africa has been in its battle to keep the white man on his pedestal and the black man in his place at its foot, its rabid Nationalists have always been haunted by a fear of the future. By A.D. 2000, they reckon, the nation's 6,000,000 whites will be swamped in a sea of 25 million blacks. Last week, after five years' study, a government-appointed commission headed by Pretoria University's Professor F. R. Tomlinson, a Cornell graduate with a U.S. wife, brought forth a blueprint for total apartheid (apartness...