Word: points
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Parents of famous people were often hot partisans of unpopular causes. They were revolutionaries, civic reformers, Zionists, free-soilers, agnostics, abolitionists, objectors to infant damnation. Goertzel. riding his thesis hard, concludes that "the children frequently became eminent by adopting a parental point of view,-by fulfilling in action a parental daydream...
...increase in sales during the trial period would cost the company $2.8 million; a 50% increase would cost it $18.7 million. The first Wall Street reaction was one of suspicion. By week's end A.M.C. stock was off one point. What the sellers failed to realize is that Romney cannot lose. He pays nothing if sales, down slightly in December from November, do not increase at least 10%. But if his gimmick makes them rise above that, the profit on the extra cars sold will more than make up the rebates...
...Small Asset. Like other aluminum companies, Harvey prods manufacturers into finding new uses for aluminum. When a truck manufacturer scoffed at the idea of aluminum truck beds, Harvey helped build some to prove the point. Today 85% of all truck beds and semitrailers are aluminum, v. the 85% once made of steel. To show railroad skeptics, Harvey recently had built an all-aluminum 85-ft. railroad car, now has constant requests for its use, hopes orders will follow...
...ultimate in barbiturate prose is the point at which tedium becomes coma, and perennially bestselling Author Keyes may have reached this point in The Chess Players. Her great sedative skill can be appreciated only when it is understood that her material, as such, is fascinating. The novel is set in New Orleans and Paris in the 1850s and '60s, contains an amorous princess, various spies and diplomats, a slave auctioneer, lovely Creole maidens, and splendidly uniformed military personnel. The hero is a brilliant, brooding fellow who becomes the world chess champion and then chucks it all for love...
...through a series of chess triumphs (actual) and a career as a Confederate agent in Paris (imagined), the reader notices a few things about the Keyes technique. There are no purple patches-only grey ones- and there are no onstage sword fights or seductions. Novelist Keyes's strong point is research, and where Frank Yerby or Taylor Caldwell might liven the soggy chapter by unhooking the heroine's bodice, Morphy's chronicler merely recreates a chess game. While it is open to question how much the author knows about chess, the royal game, it is clear that...