Word: cheerful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mystery Ship, Hell!" The bidding would have brought a cheer from the Lafayette Escadrille. Top price was for a Sopwith Camel, believed to be the last original, which went to Manhattan Stockbroker J. W. Middendorf II for $40,000 (it cost $8,000 new in 1918). Second highest price was $20,500 for an immaculate 1927 Curtiss Gulf hawk 1 A. The buyer: Korean War Pilot Dolph Overton, 40, who already has 40 vintage aircraft in his Santee, S.C., aircraft museum. Overton plans to fly the Gulfhawk, just as Race-Car Builder-Driver (Chaparral) Jim Hall expects to take...
Died. Admiral of the Fleet Sir Philip Vian, 73, British naval hero, whose rescue of 300 seamen from the German prison ship Altmark in February 1940 was one of the few things Britons could cheer about that year; of a heart attack; in Newbury, England. After taking the destroyer Cossack into a Norwegian fiord at night, Vian put her alongside the Altmark, then led his men aboard, crying "The navy is here...
...Student Cheer. Whatever the outcome, at least one politician, Lyndon Johnson, was keeping his options open, hinting at his Washington press conference that he might not campaign for the party this year if the ticket does not suit him. "I would not want to go into that matter at this time," he told a reporter. "I'll be glad to visit with you about it after the convention and we see what the situation...
Meantime McCarthy could cheer himself with the results of "Choice 68," a computerized presidential-preference poll of U.S. college students. Sponsored by Time Inc. and Sperry Rand's Univac Division, the poll was the largest nationwide pre-election sampling ever taken, with more than 1,000,000 students voting on 1,450 of the nation's campuses. Last week, after computers tabulated results, McCarthy won, with 285,988 votes, followed by Kennedy with 213,832 and Nixon with 197,167. Rockefeller, who was not an active candidate at the time of the voting late last month, collected...
...things cheer shareholders like a stock split, and last week few share holders were as cheery as IBM's. At their annual meeting in Boston, 2,300 of the faithful (of a 359,495 total) heard Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr. announce stockholder approval of the eleventh split in the company's 57 years...