Word: taking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After alarming some Americans with election-campaign Yankee-baiting, Diefenbaker has emerged in office as a firm and responsible friend of the U.S. His ministers take pains to assure U.S. investors that their dollars are welcome and safe in Canada. Diefenbaker's cooperation in defense has strengthened the effectiveness of the joint U.S.-Canadian North American Air Defense Command...
...last fall from Britain's Amalgamated Press. Hard hit by recession cutbacks in ads, Condé Nast Publications lost $534,528 last year-although Vogue finished in basic black. But Newhouse was so convinced of Condé Nast's potential that he did not even bother to take a hard look at the books, talked only briefly to Patcévitch before agreeing to plunk down some $5,000,000 for 51% control...
...America request for autobiographical information. Most of his profits go back into the business; he pays himself a salary of $250,000. He and Mitzi live in a 14-room Park Avenue duplex artfully done in French Provençal, play an occasional game of bridge, manage to take in nearly every Broadway opening. At his death, Newhouse's empire (which he estimates at $150 million-$200 million) will go into a nonprofit educational trust; the business will be run by his two sons, S.I. Jr., 31, and Don, 29. But Mr. S.I. Sr., at 63, is looking ahead...
...brains have spent seven years patiently sifting the "Great Ideas" of the ages (by Adler's classification, 102), seeking to mold their meaning into patterns intelligible to all men. At the institute's rate of progress (their first "Great Idea," freedom, is half explored), the job will take 12 centuries...
...sharpshooters among the amateurs. Currently on safari in Kenya, Ruark writes: "I should think it likely that this will be my last proper big safari, and the thought grieves me. What I bemoan mainly is the loss of the old, wild freedom when you could take off in almost any direction and find something exciting without having to check a sheaf of papers, fill out questionnaires and worry about your time limits in any one area. The people were wild and the animals were wild and the living was wilder. The Africa I knew and loved so much a decade...