Word: resistance
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Identical Attitudes. So far, the Soviets seem to feel that their own purpose is served best by the existence of Asian countries strong enough to resist Chinese influence. If that is the case, the Russian attitude is almost identical with that of the U.S. In the long run, however, the Soviet penetration of Asia may make the problems of peace more difficult to solve. The Russian presence can only add to China's paranoid feelings of encirclement. The time may come when the U.S., either as a counterbalance to Russia or to aid a more moderate and rational post...
Efficiency aside, who can resist a canoe that even comes in simulated birchbark? It's the call of the wild with all modern conveniences...
...start on the golf course. One day at a Dallas country club, Jim Ling ran across an acquaintance who was a steel-company director. The man remarked that the steel company was in trouble and should be available for a takeover. As it turned out, the company threatened to resist, and Ling backed off. But his appetite had been whetted. He started looking for other steel companies. By reading annual reports, he became interested in Jones & Laughlin. First there was a correct but tense meeting at the elegant Rolling Rock Country Club outside Pittsburgh, then a secret hotel-room huddle...
...Manhattan baking and food-freezing firm. Pistell took an option on Bluhdorn's remaining 600,000 Armour shares at $60. Thus Bluhdorn escaped the patrician Prince's trap. With great help from Bluhdorn's stock, Pistell last month captured control of Armour, despite Prince's frantic efforts to resist...
...view of the continued buoyancy of the economy, Nixon will have to extend the 10% surcharge well beyond its scheduled June 30 expiration date and resist various pressures for costly new Government spending programs, even when the Viet Nam war finally ends. For its part, the Federal Reserve will have to avoid the stop-and-go policies that in the past have produced sharp, erratic swings in the money supply and have brought criticism from some economists. The need is to show, as George W. Mitchell, one of the Federal Reserve's seven governors, puts it, that "we mean...