Word: choses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most remarkable stretch of prosperity-prosperity for which the Republicans doggedly claimed credit. From 1921 to the end of 1928, under Republican Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, real per capita national income had climbed by a heady 30%.*In June 1928 the Republican Convention in Kansas City chose a nominee who seemed superbly equipped to carry on the Republican prosperity: Secretary of Commerce Herbert Clark Hoover, 53, a self-made, wealthy, Iowa-born engineer who was the most admired member of Coolidge's drab Cabinet...
...Senator Estes Kefauver, long a banner-waving Democratic liberal, but running for re-election this year in segregation-prone Tennessee, suddenly chose to attack the vital voting-rights heart of the bill with a crippling amendment. In the Judiciary Committee, Kefauver proposed an amendment that would change a would-be Negro voter's private hearing before the voting referee into a public hearing open to challenge by local officials. By the time civil rights partisans realized that this would gut the strongest part of the bill, Dixie Senators had rushed Kefauver's amendment through committee...
...paint the cover portrait, the editors chose one of Australia's most illustrious painters: William Dobell, 60. whose bold, imaginative style has won him the New South Wales National Art Gallery's Archibald Prize for portraiture three times. Painter Dobell found Prime Minister Menzies a "good sitter," reports that they chatted about friends, other artists and a mutual lumbago during their sketching sessions. Viewing the finished product, a friend remarked that Dobell had captured Menzies' "supercilious look." "No," corrected Dobell, "I've got his disdain-for-critics look." Gruffed Menzies himself...
...advanced program, Andover can only squeeze 43% of its students into the "Big Three." Andover is not attempting such squeezing at all. The dean has made great attempts to put students into schools where they will derive the greatest benefit. Two of our Merit Scholarship winners, certainly outstanding students, chose from the 44 other colleges, because they believed they could derive more from them. A big-name school, as you report, is by no means an assurance of the best education, even for a good student...
Last week Touré, in desperation, chose the path of many impoverished young nations. Assured of a $35 million credit from Russia, he cut Guinea's ties with the French franc, announced Guinea henceforth would have its own currency which, by terms of his own decree, has no value in foreign trade. Dismayed, Shell, Texaco and Socony Mobil were mulling over whether it was worth it to stay. At the big Fria Alumina Works (48.5% owned by the U.S.'s Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp.), 300 European workers went on strike, halting production, seeking some guarantee that their paychecks...