Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bombs & Clips. Mikoyan never seemed to mind the necessity for extra security precautions, such as checking food with Geiger counters (to guard against attempts to poison him with radioactive substances) or the telephone bomb threat that delayed his airplane out of Chicago. In fact, he appeared even philosophical as, from place to place, he was dogged by bitter Hungarian and Ukrainian pickets, who threw stones, snowballs and eggs (no direct hits) in disregard of President Eisenhower's call for a show of courtesy. At first, he thought that "it is like a comedy," but by the time he landed...
...group of Chicago businessmen, Anastas Mikoyan last week hinted that the oldest, and once the mightiest, of the disgraced comrades might soon be brought back from Asian exile. Vyacheslav M. Molotov, said the First Deputy Premier, "might even become an ambassador to a larger state...
...with the Eisenhowers and Secretary of State Dulles. A longtime Congressman himself, he will address a joint session of Congress. Also on the ten-day itinerary: a weekend in colonial Williamsburg; a ticker-tape parade in Manhattan, talks with New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, flying trips to Detroit and Chicago...
Dutch-born Astronomer Gerard Kuiper (rhymes with hyper), head of the University of Chicago's Yerkes and McDonald observatories, thinks the moon was formed at the same time as the earth (5½ billion years ago), but at first it revolved only about 20,000 miles from the earth's surface. Beyond it were a lot of smaller satellites arranged in a disk somewhat like the rings of modern Saturn...
...moneyed U.S. consumer who performed so nobly in 1958 will buy even more heavily this year. So predict the retailers who sell and the manufacturers who make the goods. At Chicago's annual winter home-furnishing and appliance show last week, 45,000 buyers, salesmen and manufacturers from 11,483 firms started writing orders for the new year and swapping predictions about the future. Consensus: with the economy very definitely on the upbeat, U.S. retail sales in 1959 should post a banner year. Said one Washington discounter, who ordered $1,000,000 worth of goods and reports...