Word: seldom
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Betrayed. Seldom had Americans been more aware of their dependence on machines. When power failed in the $37,500 Queens home of Mechanical Engineer Edwin Robbins, the result was pure farce. Nothing worked, not the multitone door chimes or the intercom system, not the Danish dining-room chandelier or the bedroom clocks, not the hair dryer or the electric blankets, not the can opener or the carving knife, not the toothbrush or the razor. Not even the electric-eye garage door. For dinner, the Robbinses had charcoal-broiled steaks grilled over a primitive backyard barbecue...
...Seldom had a Dutch television show drawn so large an audience. Before a nationwide hookup, Parliament was debating a bill approving the marriage of Crown Princess Beatrix, 27, to West German Diplomat Claus von Amsberg, 39. Ever since the engagement was announced last spring, Von Amsberg has been attacked bitterly because he served in Hitler's army...
...first as a special assistant to President Manuel Roxas and later. as a member of the House and Senate. He has never lost an election, and in winning his Senate seat, he piled up the greatest plurality ever in a Philippine election. Wiry and energetic, he never smokes and seldom drinks. He and his wife, who is the daughter of a politically powerful family that controls Leyte and Samar, have three children. Until last year, Marcos was a leading Liberal Party man. But then, sensing Macapagal's yearnings for a second term, he bolted to the Nationalist Party, where...
...thing, people tended to lie about their looks, checked themselves off as attractive when "not exceptionally attractive" would have been a generous judgment. For another, the early computer program told a subscriber who his "ideal mate" was and whose "ideal mate" he was, but the names were seldom the same. One pioneer received a letter from a girl saying that as he was her dream come true on paper, she wanted to meet him in the flesh. When he finally stood face to face with her, he recalls: "I didn't know whether to crowbar her into...
...merger brokers. Business has seldom been better for these brokers; the number of mergers is rising, last year jumped to a record 1,797. The brokers - who thought up the largest share of these combinations - have a broad, objective view of the entire economy that enables them to make imaginative matches of companies in disparate industries. The middlemen may be blue-chip commercial bankers or account ants, such as Morgan Guaranty and Price Waterhouse, or management consultants or even public-relations...