Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...editor of Moscow's Komsomolskaya Pravda (Truth of Communist Youth, or "Pravda Jr.") called two reporters into his office. Said he: "Set all your current work aside and take an assignment into the 21st century." So the reporters, Sergei Gushchev and Mikhail Vasiliev, interviewed 29 Soviet scientists and wrote a Communist book, obviously meant as a major Soviet showcase: Russian Science in the 21st Century. Now published in the U.S. by McGraw-Hill, the book offers a glimpse at the little-known world of Soviet science. And an unexciting world it seems...
...Breed Apart. As the son of one of the richest men in the U.S.-and a millionaire in his own right on his 21st birthday-he might well have become a minted conservative. But the Kennedys were a breed apart: Father Joe Kennedy was a Wall Street nabob and a man of many reactionary convictions, yet he swallowed Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal whole. Later, as U.S. Ambassador to Britain on the eve of war, he broke emphatically with Roosevelt on the issue of U.S. involvement in World War II. In the salad days of the New Deal, Jack...
Born. To Konrad Adenauer Jr., 54, director of a Cologne mining company and eldest son of the West German Chancellor, and Carola Adenauer; their sixth child (the 84-year-old Chancellor's 21st grandchild), a son; in Cologne. Name Max Patrick...
...varsity's other entries were Ed Hildreth, eight; Bob Knapp, ninth; John Benjamin, 11th; Jim Bonnar, 12th; Gerry Webb, 17th; John Evans, 19th; and Don Kirkland, 21st...
...Government programs had been "too timid and too little" up to now he said, not mentioning either the Eisenhower Administration or Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson by name.* Present surpluses, said Nixon, should be disposed of; future surpluses should never be allowed to accumulate. And at the 21st annual plowing contest in Guthrie Center, Nixon discussed the four parts of "Operation Consume," his plan for dealing with the surplus part of the problem. It calls...