Word: top
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cherished institutions, radical students dedicated to their cause are now abandoning another: the summer vacation. In cities across the country they are working overtime during the hot summer months, while campuses are cool, to revolutionize society and plan future assaults on the established order. One of the top national leaders of the Students for a Democratic Society says: "For S.D.S. people, there is no summer vacation. We see ourselves working 18 hours a day forever. We're in this for a lifetime...
...developing plans for a week-long series of demonstrations to be held during the International Industrial Conference at San Francisco in September. The conference will bring together 500 heads of major industrial, technological and financial firms like U.S. Steel, IBM, Royal/Dutch Petroleum and the Chase Manhattan Bank in a top level gathering that the students say "is designed to consolidate the dominion of the multinational corporations in the third world...
...anything like that really in prospect for the foreseeable future? Probably not. One primary cause of recessions is top-heavy business inventories. In 1966, companies unwisely kept on piling up stocks of goods even as sales were falling; they then had to liquidate quickly, and the result was a steep drop in production-and the "mini-recession" of 1967. An encouraging sign this year is that inventories have been closely keeping pace with sales, and businessmen-having learned from the past-are not overstocked...
...saying that he was a nice guy seems singularly naive. His achievements and influence were far too extraordinary for so simple an explanation. For decades he was Mr. Wall Street, the director's director, the master floater of securities issues, the headhunter who as Washington's top-dollar-a-year man brought hordes of high-powered executives to the capital to organize and run the World War II and Korean mobilization efforts. He served as informal financial adviser to five Presidents, from F.D.R. to L.B.J., and was at different times a big fund raiser for both parties. Throughout...
...scene establishes the peaceful, orderly life of Jannings in his apartment. The room where he EATS breakfast is deep and flooded with light. When he sits down to eat, however, the camera a few feet above his head seems to lock him into his chair, between the curved table-top before him and the gleaming surface of a globe behind. While cracking an egg he whistles to his canary; hearing no answer, he rises and goes to the cage. His head fills half the frame; the cage, the other half. His landlady comes in, takes the dead bird, and saying...