Word: blissfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Buddhist Bliss. Undismayed, the Hague judges plowed through the transcript for 2½ months after formal arguments ended, finally found (by 9 to 3) for Cambodia. When Prince Sihanouk heard the good news, he announced that he would shave his head and maintain a thanksgiving vigil for seven days and nights. But Thailand's Marshal Sarit summoned his military commanders, ordered reinforcements to the area of the temple, which at the moment is under Thai control. Thailand even ordered its diplomats to boycott the meetings of SEATO...
Then everything suddenly dissolved in Buddhist bliss. Sarit announced to a Cabinet meeting that a battle with Cambodia would be "fulfilling an objective of the Communists," and so Thailand will go along with the Hague court decision. This, he declared, was essential "to maintain our fine reputation in international affairs." After the Cabinet meeting, he told reporters: "We speak with tears. Many ministers wept...
...Belgian Bliss. Few First Ladies were more sorely needed or more swiftly accepted than Belgium's Queen Fabiola. For years, Belgians had besought their remote, unhappy King Baudouin to take a wife. Though it was in the midst of the Congo crisis that Baudouin, now 31, announced his engagement to Spanish-born Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, the whole country rejoiced...
...price-earnings ratio gets down to Raskob's 15 to 1. Since the earnings of all 30 Dow-Jones industrials were running at an annual rate of $36 in the first quarter of 1962, scrupulous adherence to the 15-to-1 rule, notes Executive Vice President Charles Bliss of the Bank of New York, would mean that the funds and insurance companies would move back into the market heavily only after the Dow-Jones drops another 70 to 540. Adds Bliss: "I wouldn't be surprised if the Dow-Jones earnings dropped to $33 in the first quarter...
...music: Robert Ward's opera, The Crucible; public service by a newspaper: Panama City (Fla.) News-Herald; editorial writing: Thomas Storke of the Santa Barbara (Calif.) News-Press; local reporting under deadline: Robert Mullins of the Salt Lake City Deseret News-Telegram; local reporting not under deadline: George Bliss of the Chicago Tribune; national reporting: Nathan Caldwell and Gene Graham of the Nashville Tennessean; international reporting: Walter Lippmann; cartoon: Edmund S. Valtman of the Hartford (Conn.) Times; news photography: Paul Vathis...