Word: chilled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this idea first hit me," said Steve ("the thinking man's comic") Allen, "I got that certain instinctive chill. The hair on the back of my neck almost stood up. The idea was that good." Allen's brainstorm: a 19-minute "Meeting of the Minds" inserted in his hour-long TV variety show, featuring Allen and actors playing Aristotle, Dostoevsky, Montaigne, Hegel, Freud and Clarence Darrow, the lot of them hashing over the wisdom of the ages. But NBC, unable to see in such a cerebral panel the laugh riot customarily expected of Comic Allen, summarily vetoed Thinker...
...puzzle. After falling in eleven out of the 15 trading days this year, the Dow-Jones industrials were down 39.62 points from their alltime high of 685.47 on Jan. 5 before leveling off slightly at last week's end. The big question: Is the drop simply the winter chill that has hit the market along about this time in each of the past three years (see chart), or a sign of something more serious...
Last week, in the chill marble halls of Paris' Hotel Majestic, a briefcase brigade of economic experts from 13 Western nations addressed themselves to these problems. At the suggestion of U.S. Under Secretary of State Douglas Dillon, they agreed to set up a temporary committee to think about increasing and coordinating foreign aid programs. For the long range, they decided "in principle" to establish a 20-nation Atlantic economic community consisting of the 18 members of the OEEC (the longstanding Organization for European Economic Cooperation, set up in Marshall Plan days), plus the U.S. and Canada. The details would...
Cruising routinely through the chill North Pacific last fall, U.S. Navy ships and aircraft reported unusual Russian missile activity. The Navy tracked a couple of Russian intercontinental missile shots into northern waters, considered deploying a U.S. submarine to snag a made-in-Moscow ICBM nose cone before Russian pick-up ships could get to it. During the past fortnight the Navy watched with increasing interest as radar-studded Russian trawlers headed thousands of miles southward into the Central Pacific. Last week the Navy and the U.S. got the news through Moscow's Tass Agency of what the Red fleet...