Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Obviously, such activity is not done without planning and organization, and Jack Kennedy has the smoothest-running, widest-ranging, most efficient personal organization in the Democratic Party today. It has men, money and brains; his opponents claim it is the most savvy and hard-nosed group put together in U.S. politics since Tom Dewey and Herb Brownell swept Taft out of the G.O.P. race...
Some ophthalmologists still insist that the small corneal lenses should not be worn in active sports because of the risk of dislodgement. But several members of the Chicago Bears (hardly a sedentary group) wear them, notably Dr. William McColl, 29, All-America (Stanford University '52), with the Bears since 1952 and now in his second year as a resident in surgery at the University of Illinois. In his first season with the Bears, McColl's contacts fell out a few times, but he has no trouble now that they have been refitted. And Dr. McColl wears them into...
...Most laymen are understandably confused by the terms. Until about 1920, eye-specialist physicians were generally known as oculists; status seeking led them to style themselves ophthalmologists (which few patients can spell or pronounce). The man who made corrective lenses was an optician. An intermediate group developed, called doctors of optometry, who often did the eye measurement (refraction) on which the prescription was based. Opticians can still grind lenses but are forbidden to do the refraction...
...Singer Strunk-Lauren is the solidest new prospect in the teen-age market since Fabian uttered his first gosling cries. He is also an example of how a record company can create a singer out of next to nothing. Roger was a small club performer with an instrumental group called The Buddies when RCA spotted him on the West Coast last summer and signed him. The company budgeted $50,000 to launch Rod's first disk, bombarded dealers with promotional material, emphasizing the sullen good looks the kids are supposed to go for. For six weeks Rod toured...
...shares reached a peak, a new group of sharpers moved in, said Lefkowitz. Knowing the stock was astronomically overpriced, they began selling short. Among those known to have sold short, said Lefkowitz, were two ex-convicts, Sidney Barcley and Morris ("The Weasel") Miller, who got one-year prison terms in 1958 for SEC violations involving Canadian oil and uranium stocks. After the price plummeted, Barcley made the rounds of sweating brokerage houses offering "mob money" to bail the brokers out and take over their businesses...