Word: seniors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...others at the table left, leaving him alone with a red-headed senior who, unnerved by his meticulous method of eating, stood up to leave, pushing the table away while rising. The heavy wood knocked into him, striking his chest. Desperately, he said, "Please, be more careful...
...March 24 cover was beautifully done and quite symbolic. It recalls for many of us here Bernard Lorjou's The Dying Bull, [see cut]. The original painting hangs directly opposite the desk of our senior partner, who finds it an ever-present reminder that no "sacred cows" or immortal bulls roam Wall Street. As Baron Rothschild put it: "Fortunes are made by buying low and selling too soon...
Vital Samplings. Prodded at his news conference. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles fell into the hole, conceded that the U.S.S.R. had won "a certain propaganda victory." But, said Dulles, the President had been forewarned about the Kremlin's move, had consulted with senior officials (Dulles, Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles, Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lewis Strauss) on whether "to try to steal a march on the Soviet" by announcing a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests. He had decided that this summer's tests of "clean." i.e., low-fallout, nuclear weapons at Eniwetok Atoll were essential...
...only fly in the ointment is 16-year-old Joss, senior daughter of the Greys. She and Eliot get the trembles whenever they brush shoulders-and Mlle. Zizi, a jealous old gentlewoman of at least 30, is beginning to brandish her falsies. Three-quarters of the way through her bee-loud glade, Author Godden starts dropping her surprises. Eliot, it seems, is no English gentleman after all: he is an international crook who, as a French paper prettily puts it, "collects precious stones, chiefly diamonds." As for Paul, he climbs up to Joss's bedroom and is about...
...itself in both U.S. and world markets. Oil demand in the U.S. alone is expected to rise from about 8.5 million to 14.3 million bbl. daily by 1966; the same men compute free-world demand by then at 28.5 million bbl. daily. In 20 years, says William L. Naylor, senior vice president of Gulf Oil Co., the demand for petroleum should increase at least 80%, and perhaps as much as 100%. Yet before oilmen can enjoy this long-term prosperity, they must first solve their short-term problems. The solution is not so much to caterwaul about imports, or even...