Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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These estian maxims, though they might seem puzzling to some, can only come as heartening news to this particular crowd. Most of them, the 1,500 or so gathered here, are in the market for enlightenment. And if "nothing" is indeed its source, they have certainly managed to be in exactly the right place at exactly the right time. It is a Sunday that, by the climactic instant of Erhard's appearance, has begun to seem like an eon if only because of the hardtail, fold-down seats of the place: a seedy high school auditorium on Manhattan...
...were held up by orators as models of economic progress that China would do well to emulate. Given all this, foreign embassies began to flash home word of major impending developments, including perhaps the possibility of a new line-up in Peking's Politburo. Whatever happens, the results seem likely to secure further the power of Teng Hsiao...
...Francisco). Last week Tiffany surprised almost everybody by agreeing to sell its whole business?lock, stock and bauble. The buyer will be Avon Products, Inc., the door-to-door giant that knows a lot more about cold cream than carats. Selling to such a mass-not-class company would seem to betray a rare streak of egalitarianism in Tiffany Chairman Walter Hoving, whose often stated political views would make Marie Antoinette's sound like Vanessa Redgrave's. In fact, money talked. In a lopsided swap, Avon offered $45 worth of its stock for each share of Tiffany, which had been...
...with the exception of one wild, wonderful, night in February two years ago, Harvard hopes seem forever turned into Terrier truths...
Some ideas just never seem to work out quite right...