Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Career. After three years of grueling work as a freshman in a Wall Street law firm, he headed back to Ohio. As a New York lawyer, he explains, "you work harder and harder to become more and more successful so that you can move further and further away from town and see less and less of your family." As a rising young Republican lawyer in Cincinnati (who still defends a first vote for Franklin Roosevelt), he dabbled in politics, got elected to two terms (1950-53) as a city councilman. Appointed by President Eisenhower in 1954 to the U.S. Court...
Outside the Vatican, crowds will wait expectantly, eyes fixed on a spindly stovepipe that juts from a wall of the Sistine hapel. Reason: ballots are burned with damp straw-which makes black smoke-when votes are inconclusive, burned alone -which causes white smoke-after a Pope has been chosen. After the deciding vote, he Pope-elect is asked simply: "Acciptasne -lectionem? [Do you accept the election?]." His solemn answer: "Accepto...
Pother Panchali (Edward Harrison). One day in 1952, a 31-year-old commercial artist in Calcutta went down to the pawnshop with his wife's jewels. Then he rented an ancient Wall camera, and on the first fine Sunday after that, he rounded up a few actor friends, piled them into a taxi, and headed upcountry to a picturesque village he knew. There and thereabouts, heedless of the fact that he had never shot a foot of film in his life, Satyajit Ray (pronounced Sawt-yaw-jit Rye) plugged away at his movie project whenever...
...From Wall Street to Walla Walla, the tremendous surge of the U.S. economy was felt across the nation last week. Though the economy still ailed in spots, its recuperative force and obvious vitality showed up so strongly that even the optimistic were taken by surprise...
With Government bonds near record lows, bond speculators have been taking much of the blame from the Government for their part in the debacle. Last week one of the biggest Wall Street dealers in Government bonds hit back with some plain talk about speculation and Government bond policies. The U.S. Treasury, said Aubrey G. Lanston, president of Aubrey G. Lanston Inc., not only encouraged speculators to come into the market by tailoring its offerings to attract them, but would have been unable to sell $26.5 billion of recent middle and long-term securities without "a good dose of speculation...