Word: biggest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...minutes after his address began, many Americans had already switched off their television sets. Others had grown heavy-lidded. Still others slouched, fast asleep, before flickering tubes. Then, with the particular relish he derives from surprises, the President jolted his countrymen out of their Sunday somnolence with the biggest surprise of all. Said he, in a sentence that may already have earned its place among historic American quotations: "I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President...
...R.U.R. first introduced the concept of a robot. In The Memorandum, a popular play by Vaclav Havel, the main character gets an important memorandum in an impenetrable official language; in order to get permission to learn the language, he must first write a petition in it. One of the biggest hits of the Prague theater season, The Labyrinth by Ladislav Smoček, shows men imprisoned in a maze of park pathways and hedges, which represent bureaucracy. While an amused keeper watches with his vicious dog, they crawl piteously about, toss out the bones of their dead comrades and conduct...
...losses trimmed Labor's Com mons majority to 74, down from the comfortable 97 won two years ago. The elections showed an 18.2% swing to the Tories, the biggest switch between the two parties since the surprise result that ousted Winston Churchill in 1945. If elections were held now, on the basis of last week's count the Conservatives would win 420 of the 630 seats in the Commons, picking up no fewer than 270 from Labor. "If the government cannot reverse its present unpopularity," warned the London Times, "there will inevitably be a further political crisis...
...British firm called Air Holdings, Ltd., disclosed that they will purchase 144 of Lockheed's 256-passenger L-1011 air buses-50 each for Eastern and Air Holdings, 44 for TWA-at a total cost of $2.16 billion. The order was not only by far the biggest ever placed for commercial airplanes, but also one with international significance...
Some two years ago, Wall Street whiz-bang Meshulam Riklis assigned himself a Herculean task. He aimed to take over Schenley Industries, Inc., one of the nation's biggest distillers (1967 sales: $518 million), through a merger with Glen Alden Corp., part of the $1.4 billion sales complex that Riklis, 44, has shuffled together...