Word: savers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Democratic leaders. A Democratic legislature in North Carolina threw the state's 4 only Republican Congressman, Charles R. Jonas, into a new district with Democratic Representative A. Paul Kitchin. The race is as close as the conservatism of the two men. Says Jonas: "There are spenders and savers. I'm a saver." Says Kitchin: "I'm a conservative, but not a mossback...
Salesman & City Saver. The new Chase headquarters building combines the familiar Rockefeller urge to improve New York City with the more practical aim of selling Chase spectacularly. While other banks were deserting the crowded downtown financial district for roomy midtown offices, David defiantly bought a chunk of downtown land that Morgan Guaranty Trust had decided was too waterlogged to build on. The result: the Chase Manhattan Plaza, where lower Manhattan's first good-looking new building in half a century sits in the midst of a spacious, tree-studded terrazzo terrace. The new Chase headquarters has the nation's biggest...
...extras" most in demand at the redemption centers are relatively modest items that the average family can acquire in only a few months of stamp saving-steam spray irons (7½ books), bathroom scales (2½ books), wall-mounted can openers (1½ books). But for the truly ambitious saver, the premium catalogues offer Chevrolet Corvairs (700 books, which a family spending 20% of a $12,000 income with stamp-giving retailers could probably amass in 35 years) and even Piper Deluxe Caribbean airplanes (3,000 books, or $360,000 worth of groceries...
...says Teacher Kimball, "or she couldn't sing the way she does." Says Leontyne herself: "I am not a crusader in anything except my career." Often when she talks about her race, it is in joking fashion. The dusky Aïda she refers to as her "makeup-saver role." Once a wardrobe mistress forgot and warned her about soiling her light costume with the dark Aïda makeup. Leontyne pointed to her skin and said, "Honey, you'd be surprised; that won't come...
This system has been field-tested on transmission lines carrying 138,000 volts, and has proved a time and labor saver. But linemen must learn new habits to use the system safely. With their bodies charged with electricity straining to reach the ground, they must avoid all grounded objects. Poles and towers, which were friendly and safe under the old system, are enemies now. Brushing against them will bring the instantaneous fate that comes to nose-touching squirrels...