Word: turnabout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Street securities analyst, manager of the Axe-Houghton group of five mutual funds (combined assets: $300 million), a onetime champion marksman, fencing, judo and chess expert (he once played six simultaneous games blindfolded in an exhibition), who predicted the 1929 crash six weeks in advance as well as the turnabout in July 1932, ran the business from a 40-room turreted castle in suburban Tarrytown, N.Y.; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
France and Britain are already far along in their $500 million program to develop their own supersonic airliner, the needle-nosed Concorde. Last week, in a surprise turnabout, the British and French state-owned airlines-BOAC and Air France-placed six orders apiece for the rival U.S. supersonic transport. Though the exact design of the American SST has not yet been determined, the plane will definitely be bigger and faster, and will have a longer range than the Mach 2.2 Concorde. The British-French move not only gave a heartening boost to the U.S. project but stirred new doubts about...
...services could be usefully united. Nor did he still think that the three civilian service secretaries could better function as Assistant Defense Secretaries. And he had also abandoned the idea for a single Chief of Staff to represent all the military branches. But it wasn't a total turnabout. He still agrees with Robert McNamara on greater reliance on missiles...
...better chance against Gaullist candidates (three out of five Socialists in his department did win). Chief supporter of the unity maneuver is Defferre's noted fellow Socialist, ex-Premier Guy Mollet, who for years rigorously attacked the Reds as being "not left, but East," then did a significant turnabout in the same parliamentary elections. Local Red candidates in his constituency withdrew in Mollet's favor, and Mollet for his part obligingly called for a "public dialogue" between Socialists and Communists...
Prehensile Tale. Boulle's tale clings prehensilely to this one turnabout joke, but rings nearly as many satiric changes on it as Swift did on the horsey Houyhnhnms. Caught in a hunting drive, the captured earthman watches as elegant female gorillas in fine tweeds utter little cries of admiration for the bag of naked humans their husbands have shot. The survivors are put in cages in the local laboratory, and Mérou finds that his dim-witted cellmates take weeks to learn to salivate when the keeper blows a whistle at mealtimes and never really catch...