Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect their staff to do the same." 2) "Ulbricht's formidable stamina kept his colleagues on an 18-hour day." 3) "In Washington, Cicognani began his day at 6 a.m. and expected his associates to do the same." Effective this week, I am setting my alarm clock for 5 a.m. and "expect my associates to do the same." What time does Time's editor arrive on the job? LEONARD L. LASNIK
State Department Building. At 4:50 o'clock that afternoon. President Kennedy was back in his oval office, talking to aides, when Foreign Policy Adviser McGeorge Bundy walked in with a yellow-slip of Teletype paper bearing the report, which had just been verified by the Central Intelligence Agency. Then, still two hours before the Soviet Union officially announced that it planned to resume atomic testing. John F. Kennedy began to plan about meeting Russia's latest brazen threat in the cold...
...house abounds in roomy, overstuffed and not necessarily stylish chairs, because all the Kennedys seem not so much to sit in chairs as to bivouac in them. Since most members of the family are prodigious readers, reading lamps are scattered everywhere. Another must in every room is an electric clock. "I always insist on this," says Mother Rose Kennedy, "because then no one has an excuse for being late for meals." One real sign of luxury in the Kennedy homes is the platoon of servants necessary to keep things straightened up; none of the family have ever been especially concerned...
...raised $392,000 to buy the painting back for London's National Gallery. It had hung since then in conspicuous splendor on a red tapestry screen at the top of the main stairway. From there one night last week it vanished some time between 7:40 o'clock, when a guard last saw it in place, and 10:05, when another discovered that it was gone...
...Civil Defense Chief Leo A. Hoegh. Says Hoegh: "We, have already sold 5,000 shelters this year, and our volume must now be ten-to fifteenfold over a year ago." Wonder Building offers four all-steel models ranging from $395 to $995. With one plant already working around the clock, Wonder will open a second Chicago factory this week, is laying plans for others in Ontario and on the West Coast...