Word: argus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proof that McGovern is serving "outside interests," Gubbrud takes out large advertisements in the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader documenting contributions to the McGovern campaign from such "outsiders" as the United Auto Workers Committee on Good Government...
...Smith is slim, white-haired, countrified in speech, friendly in manner. He publishes the tiny (circ. 2,000) weekly Argus in the midstate town (pop. 7,400) of Robinson. He golfs and fishes, is a Rotarian and a former statewide vice president of the Elks. Fascinated newsmen describe him as the healer who wound up as Illinois Republican chairman in 1960 because, in a party ripped and bloodied with faction, "he was the only man nobody...
...fishermen, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea may be just another fish story. Not to Robert Clarke, 58, a civil engineer for whom a pleasant afternoon of trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young...
...back is Argus-eyed. I live in danger...
...before Fairchild's precipitous downturn, the Argus Research Corp. reported gloomily on the future of electronics stocks to 75 brokers and institutional investors. Not only were shares overpriced, but Argus reported that there was a hint of over-inventory. Advancing technology had cut the cost of making microcircuits, but the savings had not yet been passed along to customers; for weeks there had been suspicions of an impending price slash, which presumably would be reflected in lower earnings. Morning after the Argus report, a big mutual fund, with its own pessimistic conclusions about Fairchild, offered a block...