Word: sums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sum, horrible but definitive, repellent but-pending realization of the dream of world order-inevitable. Soldiers in all wars usually manage to make some rueful appraisal of this human dilemma, and the G.I.s in South Viet Nam are no exception. Their catchall comment, endlessly applied to one another's hard-luck stories of great pain or minor difficulty, is a deadpan "Sorry about that...
...January, 1953, a month before Furry's appearance before the HUAC, Arthur Sutherland, professor of Law, and Zechariah Chafee, Jr., University Professor and a respected civil libertarian, issued a statement intended to clear up ambivalent aspects of the fifth amendment. In sum, they argued that it was "ill-advised" for witnesses to withhold testimony on grounds of self-incrimination in court or before legislative investigation committees. The professors felt the citizen "is neither morally nor legally justified in attempting political protest by standing silent when obligated to speak." Also ruled out as a motive for silence was a "sense...
...first federal scholarships for undergraduates and other substantial aid to higher education. The program involves $667 million the first year, expands after that to a five-year total of $4.7 billion. The Senate bill would cost $42.5 million more than the House version, $407 million more than the sum originally requested by the Administration...
...date had been set, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah suddenly put off his own spectacular−the 36-nation Organization of African Unity summit until Oct. 21, which was so close to the Algiers summit that many leaders might not be able to attend both. With a vast sum invested in an enormous modern conference hall and 65 presidential villas, Bouteflika had come to Accra to talk Nkrumah into setting a less conflicting date...
...point changes in the Dow-Jones average and the dollars-and-cents meaning of those changes. The Dow-Jones index is calculated by totaling the per-share value of 30 blue-chip industrial stocks (among them: A.T. &T., Du Pont, General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel), then dividing the sum by a frequently changed divisor-now 2.278-to erase the effect of stock splits and dividends. Thus figured, the Dow-Jones average of those 30 stocks stood at 888.82 at week's end, but their average market price was $67.50. Complained The Exchange: "A one-point change...