Word: autumn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Broken Ice. It was a relaxed Brandt who stood before the cheering delegates at the Dortmund convention. Gone was the dynamic but phony "Kennedy pose" that his public relations advisers had forced on him for last autumn's campaign. He demonstrated his new command of the party by decisively whipping a small, vociferous left-wing faction into line, then easily and naturally expounded his policy designed to lead to a unified Germany. He has always believed in kleine Schritte-small steps-toward that end, and the exchange of speakers with the Communists neatly fitted the pattern of limited contacts...
Although recent events have brought the conflict into sharper focus, the problem is not new. Since its every beginnings, Radcliffe has struggled with its identity, constantly attracted and repelled by the larger University. In the autumn of 1876, a small group of Cambridge residents met to discuss the need for an institution for the higher education of women in the university. Proceeding cautiously, they gained President Eliot's qualified approval for their proposal, then contacted certain carefully selected members of the Harvard Faculty to request that they teach qualified females. In all their dealings, the founders made two points very...
...executives call the world's biggest airline, even though Air France flies more route miles. United now has 149 jets and 18,000 miles of routes connecting 116 cities; last year it carried 17,340,000 passengers. Revenues last year reached $792.8 million and earnings $45.8 million. This autumn, service to Hawaii will include the first 250-passenger "stretch-model" DC-8s to be delivered. The airline is also gradually taking delivery on $750 million worth of new planes, and hopes to win a Pacific route to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand...
...Sardinia, Sons and Lovers. Wyndham Lewis, Tarr. Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, Contes Cruels. Louis MacNeice, Autumn Journal. Stephane Mallarme, Poesies. Andre Malraux, La Condition Humaine. Katherine Mansfield, The Garden Party. Somerset Maugham, The Casuarina Tree. Guy de Maupassant, Bel Ami. Henri Michaux, Au Pays de la Magie...
...whatever it was prompted India's Central Bureau of Investigation to assign a team of topflight investigators to try and track down Walcott. His trail led first to Europe again, then doubled back to Pakistan, where he showed up with a converted B-26 bomber shortly before last autumn's border war. The Pakistanis suspected that he was air-dropping watches and gold into India, but before they could interrogate him, Walcott skipped off, leaving the plane behind...