Word: retains
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Folk singers come in at least four varieties: the genuine articles, such as Louisiana Convict Pete Williams; the "city-billies," who pick up their materials at second hand but try to retain the original flavor; the "art singers," who transform the materials in carefully stylized arrangements, and the frankly commercial groups, which fit folk lyrics into a pop format. Among folk music's currently popular or promising names...
...scheduled to open the Congo's first Parliament at the end of the month, provided the country does not explode into bloody civil war beforehand. Watching the events in Brussels with rising anger, choleric Patrice Lumumba growled: "The Belgians prefer to give power to stooges and retain power for themselves in the Congo. Without my party, the government will not last two months...
...Atlantic Coast Line announced plans to merge with the aggressive Seaboard Air Line Railroad, thus end a long rivalry. The new road would be called the Seaboard Coast Line, have assets of $900 million and rank tenth among the nation's railroads. Seaboard common stockholders would retain their present shares, which would be equal to one share in the new road. Coast Line common stockholders would receive 1.42 shares in the new company for each share now held. John W. Smith, Seaboard president, would become chairman of the new line and W. Thomas Rice, Coast Line president, president...
...reelected, and Tommy Douglas' medical plan goes through, Douglas Stewart may well spend a lifetime without a medical bill: prepaid compulsory insurance will pay for everything. The premier promises that under his plan, patients would be free to choose their own physicians, and doctors would retain the right to a private practice...
...shares of Random House stock, worth roughly $3,000,000. Knopf and his wife Blanche, an aloof, astringent woman who is the firm's president (her husband is chairman), will still run their publishing house as an independent fief under the Random suzerainty, and their books will retain the familiar Borzoi escutcheon...