Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock in the afternoon, a small cloud of sand puffed over Rainier Mesa, Nev. From a tunnel deep below the mesa's sandy surface, a muffled thud rose to shake the desert silence. Minutes later in Washington, President John F. Kennedy announced that the U.S. had "reluctantly" completed its first nuclear-weapons test in nearly three years...
...facts about a tugboat and railroad strike that was tying up New York and was threatening to spread south and west. Right after his swearing-in ceremony, he got Kennedy's permission to intervene. He was at the bargaining table the next afternoon, and by 6 o'clock the following morning, after 14 straight hours of negotiation, he had stopped the strike by guaranteeing to both parties that the key issue of job security would be kept open and resolved in a year on the basis of a federal study already under...
...terribly busy man. That prospect is one that he faces with pleasure. He is an activist who rises at 6:30 each morning, takes a walk around his fashionable Northwest Washington neighborhood, breakfasts with Wife Dorothy, and is at his Labor Department desk by at least 9 o'clock. He still gets a real kick out of the prestige and privileges of his office. Says a Cabinet colleague: "Arthur is just as thrilled as he can be about being Secretary of Labor. This has not become old stuff...
...CLOCK WITHOUT HANDS (241 pp.) -Carson McCullers-Houghton Mifflin...
...sunny resort village of Lake George, N.Y. (pop. 1,026), every tavern and roadhouse was doing S.R.O. business. Then, when the bars closed at 3 o'clock on Labor Day morning, 1,500 college students poured out on Lake George's main street, singing, yelling and tossing beer cans. Alerted to the danger, police and volunteer firemen blockaded the street, finally dispersed the rioters with jets of water from fire-truck hoses. That night 60 beer-filled students, many in their teens, were arrested...