Word: ward
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Brokers now sense that investors are shifting their preferences from speculative stocks to those with more fundamental values. Kenneth Ward, senior vice president of Hayden Stone, expects a rising interest in steel, chemical, airline and utility stocks, which should do better than high flyers in a quieter economic climate. "For the short term, the speculative boom is over," says Research Director Walter Stern of Burnham & Co. "Too many people have been buying too many stocks for the wrong reasons. There has been a race for instant profit based on tips and stories of impending deals. The bubble has to burst...
...thrust, it soared into the clear Florida sky over Cape Kennedy Two hours and 20 minutes later, as Apollo whirled in orbit around the earth, came the anxiously awaited word to make the translunar insertion-the ma neuver that would send the vehicle to ward the moon...
...young know better. "There is a bridge between Bach's ideas of rhythm and those of the mid-20th century," says Pianist Glenn Gould, "and it has been created by popular music and jazz." The Swingle Singers, an eight-member Paris-based group led by American Ward Swingle, popularized Bach scores by performing them to the accompaniment of a jazz rhythm section, singing the themes in wordless scat syllables (ba ba da ba dee). As for jazz itself, its linear bass line, contrapuntal melodies and free improvisation all suggest parallels to Bach-parallels that have been explored notably...
...graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former editor in chief of the North western University Law Review, who later became law clerk to U.S. Chief Justice Fred Vinson. Now, at 46, he is vice president and general counsel of Marcor Inc., the $2.3 billion parent of Montgomery Ward and the Container Corporation of America. On top of that, he is the Mafia-fighting president of Chicago's crime commission...
...right to expect Evtushenko to act like a genuine member of the dissenting intelligentsia in Russia. "He has always been a part of the political establishment, and as such was able to do a lot of good in his time," she says. Oxford's Russian specialist, Max Hay ward, is also dismayed by the severity of the attacks on Evtushenko, and points out that the poet, who is now 35, has long been treading a perilous double course between compliance and resistance, in a sincere struggle for the liberalization of Russia. "But you get tired...