Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...board chairman. As a youthful agitator and underground journalist and later as a diplomat, jowly Xuan Thuy (pronounced Swan Twee) earned the trust of Viet Nam's Communist chieftains. Even during a three-year eclipse from public view before last month when he was named minister without portfolio to head Hanoi's negotiating team, Thuy retained a resonant string of official titles, notably as a member of the Lao Dong (Communist) Party Central Committee and head of its foreign relations section...
...world of films is represented by a portfolio of Andy Warhol girls, whose cliches are beginning to rival Hollywood's: "My best scene with Andy so far was a rape scene. I think sex and nudity in films are completely right because that's the way it is in life...
...deals. Better known by its nickname, Fannie Mae, the association's chief purpose is to help level off the costly peaks and valleys in U.S. housebuilding volume. It does so by buying mortgages in large quantity when home loans are scarce, selling part of its $9.6 billion portfolio when funds are plentiful. Fannie Mae deals only with such approved lenders as banks, mortgage and insurance companies, and savings and loan associations. By buying their mortgage loans, it replenishes their investment capital. The transactions are generally handled by mail through Fannie Mae's five field offices...
...whom are self-made millionaires, are brashly pitting their taste and understanding of today's baffling art trends against the judgment of the future and backing their hunches to the hilt. Nothing is too optical, poptical or far out to be in their homes (see following color portfolio...
...past quarrels, Wilson always managed to talk Brown out of quitting. This time he did not try. He gave the vacant portfolio to Michael Stewart, 61, a competent but lackluster Laborite who served for 20 months as Wilson's For eign Secretary before Brown got the post...