Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Around the world, friends, allies and newsmen were beginning to devote themselves to the study of John F. Kennedy and Richard M. Nixon. For most of them, it was largely unfamiliar territory. So far, the most common preliminary response was to find more similarities than differences between the two candidates (see cartoon). More maliciously, Paris' satirical Le Canard Enchainé saw the election as "Tricky Dicky v. Johnny the Pinup Boy." And Paris-Jour called it a "fight of middleweights." On the strength of their own interests, their instinctive prejudices and a considerable amount of downright misinformation, the nations...
...Richard Borden spotted a curious sight: among a grazing herd of cattle was a flock of yellow-legged, short-necked white herons, darting between the cows' legs, snaring grasshoppers flushed up from the pasture. Borden casually shot a series of pictures, mistaking the birds for snowy egrets, a common Florida species. Months later, Borden discovered he had the first pictures ever taken of a new U.S. immigrant: the Old World's buff-backed, yellow-billed cattle egret (Bubulcus ibis...
Under the terms hammered out by United Air Lines President William A. ("Pat") Patterson with Capital Chairman Thomas D. Neelands Jr., Capital stockholders will receive one share of United common stock for every seven shares of Capital common, plus an option to purchase an additional i^ shares of United common at $40 per share within the next five years. All in all, since Capital seemed to be jet-propelled towards bankruptcy over its $33.8 million debt to Britain's Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. (TIME, April 25), the terms seemed generous. Said Pat Patterson: "I suppose we could have done better...
...inherits from Capital the two problems that brought it low: the debt to Vickers, and an inefficient route structure. Patter son intends to clear up both problems. He has already got Vickers' agreement to take back 15 turboprop Viscounts bought on credit by Capital, and to accept United common stock as full payment on Capital's debt. Vickers may lose as much as $9,000,000 on the deal. Shrewdly, Patterson has also made the merger dependent on permission from the Civil Aeronautics Board to drop 20 cities on Capital routes, thus getting the line out of local...
...strife with life. Of the soul, he observes: "I'd rather have a sock full of two-bob bits." Thus, it is not a tram but a moral issue that runs over Dinger Bell. By the time he has won his first stripe, Dinger also wears the common wound stripe of moral cowardice...