Word: robert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...FRONT PAGE. Robert Ryan and Bert Convy, backed by an adroit cast, are featured in a revival of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur saga of newspapering in Chicago in the 1920s...
...MISER. Robert Symonds plays Harpagon in this revival of Moliere's comedy at the Lincoln Center Repertory Theater. His tendency to overplay is precisely right for this petty monster...
LIKE all his predecessors, Robert Haack, president of the New York Stock Exchange, speaks proudly of the Big Board's "preeminent position in the securities industry." Then he utters what his predecessors would surely have deemed blasphemy-the thought that this dominance is not part of the order of nature but could be lost if the exchange does not adapt itself to "a totally new set of conditions." Largely because it has so far been highly resistant to just such a basic change, the Big Board is in trouble today...
...congressional committees are also scrutinizing the industry. The inquiry is likely to be more intense than in the past, since many of oil's longtime friends in high places have departed. Lyndon Johnson has retired; former House Speaker Sam Rayburn and Senator Robert Kerr are dead. Louisiana's Rus sell Long is left to defend the industry against such Senate reformers as Edward Kennedy, Edmund Muskie, Philip Hart and William Proxmire. Oilmen have mobilized their own forces in a desperate battle to protect their interests...
...women have more accidents per mile, their smashups are less serious and 20% less costly to settle. Women tend to clobber fence posts and rear bumpers; men often hit other cars head-on and at higher speeds. A separate survey by the World Health Organization made similar findings. Says Robert Pansard, a French safety official who participated in the WHO study: "Although women are perhaps more emotional, they do not possess the drive for power which often becomes aggressiveness in male drivers." They also do not drive as much at night or on dangerous rural roads...