Word: interestingly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...self-confident commanders of the Laotian army and the aggressive young Laotian politicians who call themselves the Committee for the Defense of the National Interest, Phoui's turn to neutralism was weak-kneed behavior. They agreed with Phoui's basic diagnosis, but not with his cure; they favored junta government, openly allied to the West. They had the full support of 52-year-old, Paris-educated King Savang Vatthana, a shy Buddhist who took over the throne only last fall upon the death of his polygamous, bon vivant father (TIME, Nov. 9). Resenting his constitutional position...
...chilling, full-length production (two hours) of Alexander' Knox's The Closing Door, excellently played by Dane Clark and Kim Hunter. With some $200,000, NBC's Startime presented Audie Murphy in an hour-long condensation of Mel Dinelli's The Man, worked up little interest and no suspense. Meanwhile, pointing a TV moral, Producer Hubbell Robinson went on feasting on his overall $15 million budget for 39 Startime hours, but WNTA's Play of the Week was fighting for its life. Despite its record of first-rate drama (TIME, Dec. 14), Play...
...week's biggest worry was over tight money; interest rates were edging up all along the line. Led by C.I.T., the big finance companies hiked their rates on commercial borrowing; New York banks boosted the rate they charge on broker-dealer stock market loans by ½% to 5½%. The U.S. Treasury, in its weekly rollover of $2 billion in short-term debt, had to pay a record 5.099% on one 182-day offering. Another dampening effect was the prospect of an increase in the 4% discount rate that the Federal Reserve charges member banks...
...stock, which was listed last week on the New York Stock Exchange at $46.50 a share. In his philanthropy, Black shows no less financial hustle. The one string he attached to his Columbia gift is a stipulation that the Parkinson's Disease Foundation get all the interest on the $5,000,000 until Columbia gets to work on the new medical building. Since delay means a sizable loss to Columbia (at least $175,000 yearly), the university hopes to start construction immediately. Says Philanthropist Black: "I want to see with my own eyes the results of my good intentions...
Among the influences from the new post-doctoral emphasis which "make their way into the program for undergraduates and shape its character," Pusey included "the range of the University's interest, the originality of its scholarship conducted at the highest levels, its immediate relevance for and involvement in current world issues," and, "above all, its widespread sense of high intellectual standard...