Word: baton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...barge loaded with 600 tons of liquid chlorine was missing. If the chlorine should escape, the engineers warned, a wave of deadly gas might engulf the delta. (Civilian chemists disagreed, said it might even help purify the polluted water.) The river was closed to shipping for 40 miles below Baton Rouge while the Army brought in 116,000 gas masks, and a flotilla of Navy and Coast Guard ships searched for the barge. When divers finally found it after five days, its chlorine tanks were intact...
...council progressives were horrified. As things have turned out now, even Jesuit John Courtney Murray, a principal architect of the declaration, agrees that the text before the fathers at the fourth session is stronger than ever (see box). "The losers won a delay," says Bishop Robert E. Tracy of Baton Rouge. "The winners won a document." Last week, in one of the strongest exchanges of views since the council began, three U.S. cardinals?Gushing of Boston, Spellman of New York, Ritter of St. Louis?were among the prelates who defended the declaration, while Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani, secretary of the Holy...
Thirty years after the flamboyantly autocratic "Kingfish" was assassinated in a hallway of the state capitol in Baton Rouge, the man who used to be known back home as the "Princefish," Louisiana's Senator Russell Long, 46, offered some revisionist thinking. "By any objective standards," said Huey's son, taking the long view, "Huey Long was the best Governor Louisiana ever had." As a matter of fact, said the Senator, recalling what Dad dictated in the way of social and welfare programs (abolition of the poll tax, free night schools for illiterates, free textbooks for children, doubling...
...explanation, too. The Americans, he said were overconfident after the decisive U.S. victory in the 1964 dual meet and the poor Soviet performances in the Tokyo Olympics that followed. There was something to that. In Kiev, the U.S. men's sprint relay team had practiced passing the baton for only two hours prior to the meet. Not surprisingly, it bobbled an exchange in the race and was disqualified...
...minimum of necessary realism: an oppressive Mycenaean Valhalla and a Gibichungen hall studded with hundreds of bleached animal skulls. A cast headed by Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Theo Adam, James King, Anja Silja, Lili Chookasian and Leonie Rysanek responded to Wieland's direction with magnificent singing. Under the baton of Conductor Karl Boehm, the orchestra became accompaniment and comment, echo and counterpoint of each gesture onstage...