Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rebel leaders admit bafflement at how to win friends with dirty collars. Moreover, after failure of an anti-Batista navy uprising in Cienfuegos (TIME, Sept. 16), once dissident officers are for the moment behaving themselves. Uncertain how to turn the stalemate into a victory, the rebels demand that the U.S. cut off arms to Batista-a move which they think would be a powerful enough blow to the army's morale to bring the dictator down...
...Miami. The conservatives at the top fear that the longer they stay behind their desks while Castro is in the hills getting headlines, the smaller their influence on him will be. Recently he summoned five of the Havana brains to the hills for a conference, and they had to turn him down-they were too flabby for the trip...
Founder Baha'u'llah ("the manifestation of God") had appointed his son ("the perfect man") to succeed him, and the son in turn appointed Shoghi Effendi Rabbani ("a man under divine guidance"). When Asian flu carried off 61-year-old Shoghi Effendi in London last month. Bahais from Illinois to Iran speculated on whom he had appointed to carry on as Guardian. At Bahai world headquarters in Haifa last week 26 of the 27 "Hands of the Cause of God," chief stewards of the faith, gathered to find the answer in Shoghi Effendi's will. But where...
...standard method of gauging a company's health is to inspect its net profit-its earnings after all costs, taxes, depreciation and interest charges are deducted. In turn, net profit is split into dividends and cash retained for investment. Before World War II, when expansion was comparatively small, such a breakdown gave an accurate idea of profits. But today, because of expansion, many economists, including those at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, think that it gives a misleading impression...
...task of transforming Harvard football. The record of that transformation has been evident all fall. After an initial shock when for various personal reasons some key players left the squad, his team has enjoyed playing for him. He asks only that each player work his hardest, and he in turn works hard for them. Players on the junior varsity were given the opportunity this fall to run regular varsity plays and not to mimic plays of the Crimson's Saturday opposition each week...