Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Talking to Us!" Then came an anxious moment. Had Chimp No. 65 survived? The capsule's heat shield had disappeared, and its landing-shock bag was torn. Air Force Veterinarian Major Richard Benson stood close beside the mechanics as they took off the capsule's hatch. From inside came a whimpering sound. "He's alive!" cried Major Benson. "He's talking to us!" Soon the chimp chamber was on the deck. No. 65 grinned and shook hands with Major Benson. Then he was rushed to the Donner's battle dressing station for a physical exam...
...dealer, who gives him a cut. Under normal market conditions, the discounter might be cheaper than regular dealers, whose markup runs as high as 24%. But under current conditions, many "discounters" are selling cars at higher prices than regular dealers. With auto sales in a slump, dealers are so anxious to move their cars that they often will sell them direct to customers for as little as $100 or $150 above cost...
That's John. Unlike U-2 Pilot Powers, who began talking almost from the moment of his capture, Olmstead and McKone bore their imprisonment bravely. Once every two weeks-all they were allowed-the prisoners wrote home. From their letters, their anxious families could piece together the loneliness of men who dared not guess what their futures promised, what their country could or would do to save them. At her home in Topeka, Kans., near Forbes Air Force Base, John McKone's wife Connie read and reread every word she received. "The handwriting is John...
...Indonesia declared that it was also pulling out its 1,145 men. Overall, this meant a loss of one-fourth of the U.N.'s manpower. The withdrawals would clearly favor the pro-Lumumba rebels already in control of more than 30% of northern and eastern Congo, and anxious to extend their influence once the U.N. roadblocks disappear. In Stanleyville, Antoine Gizenga's pro-Lumumba forces held 300 hostages, prepared to shoot them if Lumumba should die in his Katanga jail; Gizenga now was getting regular arms shipments from Cairo, trucked in overland via the Sudan. To the south...
Testing. Circulation of the Saturday Review has more than doubled in the last decade, and 1960 advertising revenue was $1,867,000, up $300,000 over 1959. But Cousins is anxious to accelerate the pace. With an editorial staff of only two dozen, the magazine has outgrown its quarters in midtown Manhattan, farms out its printing, and has almost no field sales organization (two representatives on the West Coast, one in the South...