Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Central feature of Alaska-67 is a 15panel re-creation of the "Big Stampede" of gold miners focusing on Felix ("Pedro") Pedroni, an Italian immigrant who in 1902 made the first strike in the hills above Fairbanks. It also traces -of course-the peregrinations of Alaska's late poet laureate, Robert W. Service, who wrote: "This is the Law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive...
...battlefield, the situation was certainly tense enough. In addition to the North Vietnamese divisions based just north of the 17th parallel, U.S. intelligence detected two full divisions and elements of a third along the Cambodian frontier, waiting to attack the Central Highlands. There were reports by neutral observers that the Russians have sent Hanoi ground-to-ground Shyster missiles, 750-mile intermediate-range weapons that could reach Saigon from North Viet Nam. And the week's casualties pushed U.S. deaths in Viet Nam over the 10,000 mark, making Viet Nam the fifth costliest war in U.S. history (after...
...creative development in a dirty, hard-fought war. For the first time in the nation's military history, its Negro fighting men are fully integrated in combat, fruitfully employed in positions of leadership, and fiercely proud of their performance. In the unpredictable search-and-destroy missions through the Central Highlands, in the savage set-piece battles along the DMZ, in the boot-swallowing, sniper-infested mangrove swamps of the Mekong Delta, on the carrier decks and in the gun mounts of the Seventh Fleet offshore, in the cockpits of helicopters and fighter-bombers in the skies above both Viet...
...were still king. It is a circle of friends that dates back to the '20s, and each year its number is shrunk by death. Churchill and Lord Beaverbrook are gone, and so are Viscount Monckton, who negotiated the terms of Edward's abdication, and New York Central Board Chairman Robert Young, the invariable Florida host of the duke and duchess...
...difficulties of the money panic last fall are still so real that companies do not want to go through that again." Guy E. Noyes, senior vice president of Manhattan's Morgan Guaranty Trust Co., blames much of the demand on businessmen's desire to "beat the central bank" by borrowing before the Reserve Board again tightens up on credit to fight inflation...