Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have no illusions. The U.N. Security Council will say, of course, this is wonderful: the big powers agree. It doesn't happen twice a week that the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. are in agreement. And we will say no. Then it will go to the Assembly, and maybe a special assembly-and we will say no. It won't be easy...
Walk on Water. At sea, the two remaining contestants in the first singlehanded, nonstop sailboat race around the world are trying to better the record of 312 days set last month by Britain's Robin Kriox-Johnston. A onetime big-game hunter and whisky smuggler named John Fairfax is rowing a 22-ft. boat 3,300 miles from the Canary Islands to Florida. Honors for freakish firsts, though, must go to Aleksander Wozniak, a Polish exile and former R.A.F. fighter pilot, who fashioned a pair of 3-ft.-long, canoe-shaped shoes out of wood and walked 33 miles...
...emotional proposition at the core of The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is undeviating: life is an undeclared war. As Williams has dramatized it, that war is conducted on two fronts. The lacerating confrontations between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, between Big Daddy and his son Brick and Maggie the Cat, are blistering barrages of domestic car nage. They are also metaphors for a more profound and transcendent struggle, the war against the gods, the irrational, immutable duel with destiny, disaster and death - all that is meant when one speaks...
...natural haven for a genius with billowing dreams and a narrowing future. It is a two-street town, one low and one high, dumped at the foot of one Alp and facing another across Lake Geneva. Beyond the town is Byron's Castle of Chillon, the big tourist attraction of the area...
Meanwhile, 99-year-old Goodrich, the nation's fourth largest rubber company, was taking a rather bumpy ride. Last year it earned only 3.9% on its $1.1 billion sales, lowest profit margin among the Big Four. Goodrich was obviously vulnerable to takeover because its ownership was widely scattered and the price-earnings ratio of its shares was relatively modest. It was not long before Goodrich began to draw the attention of a number of acquisitive companies, including Northwest. Goodrich Chairman Ward Keener, a onetime economics professor, began mapping defensive strategies as early as last June...