Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President did not think so. The TV scandal touched off by the confessions of Charles Van Doren (see SHOW BUSINESS) seemed to leave the U.S. "bewildered," said he. It reminded him of the time when the Chicago White Sox were accused of taking bribes to throw the 1919 World Series; a bewildered newsboy went to Outfielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and said, "Say it ain't so, Joe." Obstinacy at the bargaining table and dishonesty on the air waves, Ike went on, are reminders that "selfishness and greed . . . occasionally get the ascendancy over those things that we like to think...
...look on the diplomatic team: Daughter-in-Law Barbara Eisenhower, who will accompany Ike's aide and son, Major John, and act as hostess on behalf of Mamie Eisenhower. The First Lady, said Ike at his press conference, will stay home-"It is a little bit tough, I think, for her on that kind of a mission...
...contrast with Stalin's lack of concern with living standards, Khrushchev has attempted to solve these problems. "From my own and other people's conversations with the Russians, I think they are impressed by what has been achieved lately," Bergson comments...
...Teas don't generally do this very well," Mrs. Emerson remarked. "I often think that people bring too many cookies and not enough else with them. I prefer to give dinners. By six o'clock working wives can relax and enjoy themselves, the groups are smaller, and we have time to really talk. Teas are too large and too anonymous. One time, a newcomer at a tea came over to me and asked me if there was anyone I would like to meet. I was really very delighted...
Call options are most popular with bulls, who think the market will rise. A call is a negotiable contract giving the purchaser the right to buy stock, usually in 100 share lots, any time during a specified period running from 21 days to a year or more. For example, last June Filer sold a six-month, ten-day call on American Motors for $625. This gave the purchaser the right to buy 100 shares of American Motors at 37⅛ at any time before the option expires on Dec. 7. With American Motors now selling around 80, there is already...