Word: chip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Death's Door. Fastest-growing U.S. area for skindiving is the Northeast, despite water cloudy and cold enough to dismay a mackerel. For warmth, New Englanders may pull on foam-rubber "wet" suits,* will even chip a hole through ice to get at water. In the landlocked Midwest, divers gang together for long trips to Death's Door-a channel off a Wisconsin peninsula jutting into Lake Michigan, where, tucked among hidden reefs, lie more than 200 ships dating back to the 17th century. In parched New Mexico, a club called the Dusty Divers makes weekend round trips...
...train tracks at Stamford, Conn. His own income, during all his years as foreman of the New Haven Railroad's power plant at nearby Cos Cob, never reached $100 a week. But laconic Bachelor Stillings practiced just what he preached. He put most of his savings in blue chip common stocks-and held...
...debt. U.S. Negotiator Charles E. Bohlen, longtime (1950-57) U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and now Special Assistant to Secretary of State Herter, patiently explained that trade bans were largely Congress' affair, and what about the lend-lease bill? Last week, his patience worn thin after four fruitless sessions, "Chip" Bohlen broke off the talks, marking the third U.S. failure since 1947 to get a pennies-on-the-dollar settlement of a bad debt...
...leading voice of the blue-chip U.S. business community this week tackled an issue that politicians must face in the 1960 presidential campaign (TIME, Jan. 25). After a three-year study, the Committee for Economic Development (180 top executives and educators) concluded: "Where the decentralized system cannot provide good schools, federal aid to education is an urgent necessity...
...another $200,000. The Umraths, still living in the modest brick house in St. Louis in which they were married 55 years ago, seemed unlikely bets for anybody's fund-raising list. But Umrath started investing when he arrived in the U.S., during the Depression picked up blue-chip stocks at bargain-basement prices, explained last week that he was giving his fortune to education rather than to charities because "I am my brother's keeper, and the best way to keep one's brother is to make him self-sufficient...