Word: opened
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...before dawn next day, Eisenhower arrived by helicopter at the Barlow Firehouse near his Gettysburg farm so early that he had to wait five minutes for the polls to open at 7 a.m. When asked the inevitable question, Eisenhower pointed to his wristwatch, which bore pictures of his grandchildren at four points around the dial: "That's who I voted...
...them in the Senate, spare, able Clifford P. Case, 56, has shown himself one of the most independent of Republican liberals. The scholarly son of a Dutch Reformed minister, Case is no gladhander, tends to neglect his political fences, and has repeatedly driven conservative New Jersey Republicans into open revolt by his egghead policies. Case's re-election reinforces his shaky position as his state's top Republican leader...
...hurriedly flew to Chicago to preside as two G.I.s carried Avery out of his office. As he was carried away, Avery flung the ultimate epithet at Biddle: "You New Dealer!" No Depression. When the war ended, Avery was convinced that the U.S. was headed for another depression, refused to open a single new store, began hoarding Montgomery Ward's assets until he had $327 million in cash and Government securities and $608 million in working capital stashed away for a rainy day that never came. But the rainy day came for Avery as Ward's earnings began...
Malraux thus is open to attack from two sides. The art-for-art's-sake partisans are impatient with such metaphysical preoccupations, and argue that a well-painted apple is its own excuse for being. The religiously orthodox argue that the apple, no matter how well painted, has nothing to do with the case; art cannot solve what Malraux himself describes as "the problem set [man] by the spark of eternity latent in his being...
...ability than I've got, and I'd be doing them and myself a disservice to inject myself into the papers." Besides, Roy Thomson is too busy peering through his binocular-thick glasses at more good buys on the world's far horizons. It is an open Fleet Street secret that he has designs on the London Daily Telegraph (circ. 1,220,389), biggest and most popular of London's "quality" dailies. And he has far from satisfied his appetite for papers in the U.S., where he has only eight (biggest: the St. Peters burg...