Word: bulls
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...President's elemental energy and earthiness. He recognizes Johnson as the political supreme, and he has come a long way from the days when he thought of politics as a grubby little game. "A politician's life is like a bullfighter's," Bundy now says. "The bull...
Died. Simpson Mann, 98, oldest veteran of the Indian wars (1876-91), who joined the U.S. cavalry for "$12.50 a month, fat meat and six hardtacks a meal," fought Chief Sitting Bull's Sioux including the ugly 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, where some 300 Sioux men, women and children who had surrendered were suddenly slaughtered by jittery white troops; of heart disease; in Wadsworth, Kans...
...main chute, 84 ft. across, blossomed like a giant marigold to waft the 3.5-ton craft gently to sea. Some 390 miles east of Cape Kennedy and 53 miles from the waiting aircraft carrier Wasp, the capsule plopped into the Atlantic. McDivitt was disappointed that it was not a bull's-eye. "I wanted to land on the after-elevator of the Wasp," he said later. But he was obviously pleased to be back on earth. "Hooray! Hooray!" he cried. "We're going to the Wasp...
...nearest thing, in economic terms, to waving a flag in front of a bull is to raise the memory of that great Amer ican trauma, the stock-market crash of 1929. Last week, in the midst of record prosperity, one of the nation's senior economic policymakers waved the red flag - and thereby showed how both ered and uncertain even the healthiest of bulls can become. With some well-timed but somewhat ill-chosen words, William McChesney Martin Jr., pres tigious chairman of the Federal Reserve System, brought out the mercurial char acter of Wall Street psychology, which finds...
...point is that they can cut large lawns four times as fast as power mowers. More than 85% of all buyers order a mowing attachment with their tractor; after that, they may choose other accessories that blow away or plow snow, roll and aerate lawns, haul logs, sweep driveways, bull doze dirt, and even forklift heavy loads. Inevitably, luxury optionals have been introduced: cigarette lighters, headlights for nighttime mowing, can opies and padded seats...