Word: stocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Americans succeeded the British and the Germans as the world's most tireless travelers, the proliferation of guidebooks has more than matched the tourist pace. U.S. bookstores now stock at least 50 guides to European countries, regions and cities which, despite the growing lure of Asia and North Africa, remain America's favorite tourist areas. There are also shopping guides, money guides and no-money guides; at least five paperbacks tell how to tour the Continent on the cheap. The Rich Man's Guide to Europe is due out next month, and there is already one guidebook...
Significantly, Heath retained Reginald Maudling as Deputy Opposition Leader and added to his stock by giving him the Commonwealth and Colonies shadow portfolio. That gives Maudling responsibility for Rhodesia-a fulcrum that any oppositionist should be able to wield to advantage. If Heath and Maudling together can put the full weight of Tory leadership into the opposition, Wilson's plump majority could be thinned in ensuing by-elections. If not, Heath might well be supplanted by Maudling as the Conservatives' leader...
...General, the country's highest law officer, who normally prosecutes only major espionage cases, was on hand to try a criminal case. For another, a newly erected shield of bullet-resistant glass surrounded the prisoners' dock. Behind the glass sat the defendants: Ian Brady, 28, a skinny stock clerk, and his blonde mistress, Myra Hindley, 23, a shorthand typist. Both pleaded not guilty to the charge of murdering a 17-year-old youth and two children whose bodies were exhumed late last year from shallow graves on the desolate Saddleworth moor near Manchester...
Mean Appearance. Taking grim stock of the situation, Herald Tribune Publisher John Hay Whitney wrote an eloquent Page One indictment of the unions and a last-minute plea for cooperation. "In the past," he said, "management's side has always been modestly withheld for fear of offending the negotiators and labor has had its say effectively so that we always appeared either mean or incompetent and sometimes both." Whitney conceded that the publishers had much to answer for in the past. But the present problem, he went on, is "here and now when we are trying to make...
Never before have so many bought and sold so much so often. So far this year, the New York Stock Exchange has traded 680 million shares of stock -more than 8,800,000 shares a day-or 58% more than last year. The smaller, swinging American Stock Exchange traded 318 million shares, up 123% from last year. In the first ten days of April, the American had an 82% turnover, meaning that 82% of the 1,045 issues for sale were traded, many of them with 10-to 15-point jumps in value in a single...