Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week later, Post Reporter Eric Wentworth tested the same technique at a conference called by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman. When Freeman said that his discussion of the Kennedy Round of tariff negotiations was for background only, Wentworth rose and replied: "I'm sorry, Mr. Secretary, but it's not the policy of our paper to attend background briefings." Freeman was visibly startled, but he refused to budge. "I'll withdraw," said Wentworth, and did. While other papers carried full reports of the conference, attributing it to a vague source, the Post ran nothing. Said Bradlee philosophically...
...studio audience rollicked to that line, but the lady in Nebraska rose from her chair, muttering, "That's not so funny, McGee!" With that, she swept into the kitchen to brew a pot of coffee. And no doubt to ponder the mysterious equations of show business that have enabled her son John to become the nation's midnight idol by telling silly jokes like that...
...stepping out of line," says McMahon. "Johnny was doing a thing once about how mosquitoes only go after the really passionate people. Without thinking, I slapped my arm. It was instinctive. But it killed his punch line." For restraining himself, McMahon is well reimbursed. Just as Announcer Hugh Downs rose from the brow of Jack Paar to become a TV "personality" (Today, Concentration), McMahon is now a "star." He is host of his own daily daytime show, Snap Judgment, handles NBC's Monitor mike on Saturday afternoons, and plays "spokesman" for Budweiser beer...
...projects. Up by 260,000, on the other hand, were the number of people employed in service industries, retail trade and all levels of government. In all, unemployment during the month hovered at 3.7% of the labor force, and the number of Americans at work in non-farm jobs rose 100,000 to 65,600,000 people on a seasonally adjusted basis. Such is the demand for labor that even the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is having a hard time finding young economists to fill out its charts...
Through such activities, Levitt's sales climbed to an estimated $94 million in the company's latest fiscal year and profits rose to an estimated $3,900,000. Levitt figures that his firm has built 75,000 houses worth $1.1 billion, including 4,300 last year. This year he expects to build another 5,200. "The job gets easier as we get larger," says Levitt. "There are no brains in this business. Once the management problem is solved, you can do almost anything...