Word: faster
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Even though he moved faster than he had while under wraps, Stu Symington was basing his campaign on a policy of hurry up and wait. If Jack Kennedy should falter or fail on one of the primary battlefields then Symington-generally conceded to be "everybody's second choice"-might move into position as the most promising candidate...
Inside Information. Martin said he agreed only after Charles assured him that he had inside information that Schering stock was going to appreciate much faster than Revlon. And anyway, they would informally agree that if it did not, Martin would be reimbursed his $3 a share plus the market-value difference...
Steve was so bright that high school proved a frustrating experience. Though he passed a final geometry exam with an A only three weeks after entering the course, and had read textbooks for the sophomore year before he entered it, school authorities refused to move him along faster than other students. "The school just wasn't going along with what I intended to do," he says. "I could see I was accomplishing more on my own, so I quit." He now studies advanced math and physics, takes a University of California correspondence course that will eventually...
...Street, stocks dropped sharply. The industrial index, which reached an alltime high in January of 342.9. slid to 306.1, a loss of 10%, v. 13% for Wall Street at its low point. As U.S. stocks rallied and rose on four out of five days last week, shares rose even faster in London, recovered almost half the losses. Despite the timing of the drop, London traders thought that it had been caused less by Wall Street than by the British government's intention to tighten credit further to curb inflation. The rebound, in turn, was largely attributed to the increased...
...Japanese industrialists have developed the Hicoupet Mark III sports car. U.S. price: $49.95. Obviously, Detroit will soon be just a swallowed Miltown. The hero pulls his thumb out of his mouth, strips to his Bermuda shorts, and shouts: "This is a job for Business Man!" He is, of course, "faster than a speeding ticker tape, more powerful than a goon squad, able to leap loopholes in a single bound." He does all this on the stage of a Chicago coffeehouse-nightclub called the Second City...