Word: short
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second fiddle-and to all but his enthusiastic admirers he remains the dim background figure that second fiddlers are supposed...
Also up in the air about taxes last week were Britain's legions of mini-skirted mods. British sales taxes include a 121% levy on purchases of adult clothing, but the regulations exempt children's wear. And the thigh-high miniskirts fall short of the maxi 24-in. waist-to-hem length that is bureaucratically considered the beginning of adult size. So up to now the mods have had to pay no taxes when they bought skirts. Aware that it is thus losing pounds and pounds of tax money, the government last week was searching...
...Short of the Bid. The tender offer expired on July 15 at 3 p.m. Not until shortly after 1 p.m., when a federal appellate court denied ABC's request for an injunction, did shares start pouring in. As much as 90% of those offered to Hughes were rushed to his Wall Street dealer, Loeb, Rhoades & Co., within 1½hours of the deadline. Altogether, 1,650,000 shares were counted, some 350,000 short of what Hughes bid for. Still, they represented 28% of ABC common, and would have made Howard Hughes ABC's largest stockholder...
...country with a crying need for technicians, Makerere is turning out more philosophers than engineers. Educators of all kinds are in short supply, but nearly half of the Makerere graduates who have been trained to be teachers refuse to enter the classroom, instead try to join the already ample civil service. In a country where only five in more than 1,000 youths attend college, quantity would seem to be as important as quality, but Makerere maintains a luxurious 8-to-l student-faculty ratio. Uganda's President Milton Obote, a Makerere graduate, has accused the university of being...
Dyen, who has short hair and dresses straight, looks like a political organizer, and distinctly unlike a hippie. Most of the real hippies, it seemed, were not even sitting in that circle--they were 50 yards away, just singing and playing the guitar. You could tell that they would go home peacefully when the cops came. They weren't into this thing of fighting cops...