Word: seesaws
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seesaw (by William Gibson) needs only two for the cast. Henry Fonda is an Omaha lawyer, downhearted and adrift in New York while being divorced. Anne Bancroft is a warmhearted, racy-tongued, Bronx-to-Bohemia floater whom he meets at a party. All her life she has given too freely; he all his life has taken. Shuttling between their shabby little flats, they carry on a love affair in sickness and in health, in banter and in woe, bridging a cultural and temperamental divide better than they can blot out a memory of marriage...
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...Kansas, a dizzy seesaw battle came to a Democratic victory for Lawrence Banker George Docking, 52, over Topeka Republican Warren W. Shaw, 48, who failed to overcome two severe handicaps: 1) G.O.P. factionalism, and 2) charges that, as Shawnee County chairman, he had received kickbacks on gasoline sales to the state...
After two months of seesaw argument and close study, the Federal Reserve Board took another sounding of the U.S. economy last week and gently started loosening its credit reins. In the biggest buying since March, FRB went quietly into the open market, added $196 million to its holdings of Treasury bills (maturing in 90 to 92 days), thus released more bank funds for loans to busi ness. As one result, the highly sensitive Treasury bill interest rate dropped from...
These two novels seesaw between a love of business and the business of love, and both writers make big business a good deal more fascinating than love...