Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...party or the country." Blandly, Nixon added: "I think I can assure him that his oft-expressed desire that he not be drafted as a candidate for Vice President will be respected-certainly by me." As for his own views on national issues, Nixon went on, he has set them forth in detail. He would be "very willing and happy" to meet with Rockefeller on TV for a "discussion in depth, in which he can ask any questions on any issues...
...Republican high command took one good hard look at the Democrats' boyish, oratorical keynoter, Idaho Senator Frank Church, 35, and decided that by the time the Republican Convention rolled around it would be time for a change. They set out in search of a keynoter who would be 1) a Midwesterner, 2) with evident maturity and 3) enough stature in foreign affairs to personify a cold-war tough line. Skipping over the heads of the Republican Governors, the G.O.P.'s Convention arrangements committee lighted on one of the most remarkable men in Congress: Minnesota's nine-term...
...facilities of four firms-Chapman Valve Manufacturing Co., National-U.S. Radiator Corp., Swartwout Co. and Pipe Fabricators. When Briggs directors flatly turned down his offer to buy Briggs outright, Evans (through Crane) bought 21% of Briggs's common stock, the largest single block. He was all set to elect at least part of an "independent board" of his own choice, which was likely to be more amenable to his taking over. But the court found that Evans' attempt to take over Briggs may violate antitrust laws, blocked him from voting his stock at the annual meeting June...
With the Porter company as a base, Evans set out to acquire others, showed himself a clever and cool reorganizer of corporations. His method is simple: he looks for faltering companies that have potential earning power and whose s tock is selling for less than the company's book value. He also likes to find a company with cash in the till to help pay the purchase cost. Evans never merges his company with others through stock swaps, instead buys the other company's stock and retires it, thus increasing the value of the purchasing company...
...Crillon) are already booked well into August. Cost: upwards of $20 per day for double rooms. Second-class hotels and pensions will be easier to get into. Biggest crush will be in Rome, where the 17-day Olympics start on Aug. 25. Olympics officials are planning to set up beds in monasteries and schools for the 100,000 foreigners per day expected to attend, promise that "nobody will be homeless...