Word: broads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There can be no concrete agreement of any kind in Geneva. Perhaps there may be some understanding of the broad outlines of an agenda for discussion of the problems of Berlin and Germany at the summit conference," he said...
...compared with the 1% commission for round-lot purchases on the New York Stock Exchange). Many a customer howls when told of it. But the funds have a quick rejoinder: they argue that the charge includes the cost of selling out as well as buying, is the price of broad diversification and professional management. If an investor with $4,200 (the average size of a mutual fund holding) tried to buy a diversified portfolio of stocks on the New York Stock Exchange, claim the funds, he would easily have to pay 8% to get in and out of the market...
...Arts 13, a whirlwind survey of four thousand years of Western painting, sculpture and architecture, introduces the world of visual art to over four hundred students each year. Though it may demonstrate well the sweep of the West's artistic achievement, it is questionable if the history of so broad a field can fulfill the course's avowed purpose--"to increase the student's perception of works...
...lights go low at Manhattan's garish Latin Quarter nightclub. Onto the stage glides a slim-hipped, broad-shouldered man in white tie and tails. He grasps his partner, a stunning redhead in black tights, whirls her over his head on one arm, hurls her dramatically in a split-legged fall to the floor. The dance team is Nicholas Darvas and his half-sister, Julia, one of the top acts in the U.S. What the tired businessmen watching the show do not realize is that Hungarian-born Nicholas Darvas, 39, is a better moneyman than most of them...
...found the car in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months to assemble the darn thing," he says, "but I finally got it running." THE challenge turned him into a car bug. It also made him determined to fill his father's oversized boots. A broad- shouldered (185 Ibs., 6 ft.), soft-spoken young man, Knudsen had the single-minded drive of a piston. He worked in auto plants in summer, went to Dartmouth, then to M.I.T. ('36) for his degree in engineering. After several years at other companies, he arrived at Pontiac...