Word: trumped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nobody Leaves. Levy's trump was an almost touchingly naive faith in the power of his incantation, "Come to me, baby." He even conned his onetime amoureuse, Jeanne Moreau, out of $10,000. When she threw him over, he took a heavy dose of barbiturates and nicked his wrists-but not before alerting two secretaries in the next room...
Social rules are always a topic of debate in any university context, and the private colleges will always retain the final trump card of being able to say, "if you don't like our rules, go elsewhere." But this ultimate retreat has not been espoused by the Summer School, and this in itself testifies that the administration is still open to suggestions...
...convention votes and foolish to ignore a very canny President's ability to name his Vice-President as successor. (After all, even Eisenhower could do that.) But as a lame duck, Lyndon Johnson will find his political capital gravely diminished. He will not be able to play his 1964 trump, for there is no reason whatever to believe that Hubert Humphrey in 1972 will have anything like the popular support...
Excellence in education is of course vital to the future of any state, but it is particularly important to Massachusetts, whose best trump card in the high stakes game of attracting industry is its labor force. Also, a long range solution to the problem of racially imbalanced schools in Boston and elsewhere can be reached only with a large-scale, necessarily costly, school construction program...
...Hilton Hotels' profitable Carte Blanche, which bills $90 million a year. In a complex pact, Hilton and Citibank each will own half of Carte Blanche, but the bank will hold all the voting stock. Hilton figures that Citi bank's worldwide outlets will help Carte Blanche trump the two leaders in the field, American Express and Diners' Club. Moreover, Citibank is strong in the eastern U.S., and Carte Blanche is now popular mostly in the West...