Word: anxious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...With anxious attention now focusing on 1967, early-reporting U.S. corporations are supplying emphatic reminders that 1966, despite a selective year-end slowdown, was the most prosperous year in U.S. history. Items: Bethlehem Steel, in an industry that often seems to roll its profit margins thinner year by year, far outstripped its 3.5% sales increase with a 14% rise in earnings to $171 million. To fatten sales as well, Bethlehem is pushing an invasion of the Midwest with a $500 million expansion of its Burns Harbor plant near Chicago, long a virtual fiefdom of Inland Steel...
...physicians are still anxious to discover exactly how the debilitating process works. A "good beer drinker" himself, Dr. Sullivan pointed out that not a single case was reported among any brewery employees, although they are allowed to wet their whistles while they work. In recent months, Dr. Sullivan has been trying to induce the disease in rats by feeding them cobalt-laced beer. Unfortunately, he reports, "our beer-drinking rats are the fattest, happiest rats around...
...rancor from past struggles, however, neither side is anxious for a real crunching showdown. While Nasser may have succeeded in running Suez without the British, Mobutu knows that keeping Union Minière's complex operations going himself would be almost impossible. He has appealed to young Belgian technicians "of good will" to stay on the job, and the company is asking its managers to cooperate for the time being in running the mines. If nothing else, Union Minière is anxious not to drive Mobutu into nationalizing other extensive enterprises in the Congo owned by its parent...
...Washington that she would some day be pinned down by machine-gun fire, she would have hooted. Her first choice was journalism but, bored with that, she switched to premed. After internship, Dr. Smith became bored again, this time at the prospect of "tending to well babies and anxious mothers," so she worked for two years at a miners' hospital in depressed Appalachia. When that closed, Dr. Smith went to a Catholic women's organization, the Grail, and volunteered for overseas mission work. Now she has no time to be bored. In 3½ years her Minh...
...Those anxious to obtain what could become a collector's item should visit Cahaly's on Mt. Auburn St., where at last report several copies were still available. They can also wait for Times of London, which will soon publish the Look excerpts, or for Der Stern, if they want the story of Kennedy's assassination in German