Word: chins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nikita Khrushchev clumped off the Baltika on his arrival in the United States, he looked at the crowd waiting on the dingy East River pier, saw a somewhat camouflaged familiar face and, with a steely grin, stroked his chin. This was the Soviet boss's wordless greeting to a man he recognized as a member of the press corps, TIME'S Moscow Bureau Chief Edmund Stevens. Since Khrushchev had last seen him, Stevens, while on vacation. had grown a rusty beard. Later, in a bantering mood, Khrushchev likened the beard to Pushkin's, and predicted that Stevens...
...reason to be frightened of nuclear war than the Russians: our present policy gives them incentives towards acquiring, through a reluctant ally or under their own steam, a nuclear "capability." Slim though the chances may be to influence China's internal political life, we must nevertheless seek to end Chin's international quarantine, initiate an exchange of people, ideas and goods, and bring the mainland Chinese into major international negotiations. We must try to change the international atmosphere, to break through the vicious circle of distrust which transforms negotiations into propaganda battles, and deepens the world's despair...
...tension mounted. Vice President Richard Nixon got up from a seat in the back of the chamber and walked over to Pennsylvania's Republican Senator Hugh Scott to watch Scott's tally sheet. On the Democratic side of the aisle, John F. Kennedy sat somber-faced, his chin propped on one hand, his other hand nervously fiddling with a pencil. It was the most dramatic scene of Congress' postscript session: the nip-and-tuck roll call on the Kennedy-backed proposal to provide compulsory medical care for the aged...
Market optimists who have been awaiting the "traditional" summer rise took it on the chin last week. For the second week in a row, each day the market closed lower than the day before, at Friday's closing was down 20.37 on the Dow-Jones industrial average to 609.87-the biggest weekly drop since March, and only eleven points above the year's low. The New York Times combined average of 501 stocks hit its worst point since November 1958. But there was no rush to sell. Volume averaged a thin 2,500,000 shares daily...
Only a week before the fight Ingo passed the white-glove test for Vitalis. Jayson shirts is perhaps the advertiser caught with its chin farthest out: market-bound beyond recall, complete with ads and collar labels, is an "Ingemar Johansson Shirt," due to go on sale in stores Aug. 25. Quipped General Sales Manager Paul Groetzinger: "I wore a black armband when I went to the office last Tues day." But, in the best tradition, he is counting heavily on a rematch: "I still think he's a hell of an asset...