Word: cupful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from his home district, contentious Ole Earl Long, 65, three-time Governor of Louisiana, uneasy heir to the political fortunes of his rabble-rousing dictator brother Huey, said his last. Bedded in an Alexandria hospital, his body ravaged by a weak heart and his mind deteriorated, he gulped a cup of coffee, turned over in bed. coughed and died...
...Tokyo, the sixth annual Hibachi Cup softball game was played between U.S. embassy and Japanese Foreign Office teams. The contest was once a classic in that the diplomats tried desperately to help the rival team win. Not so any more. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II, 51, onetime player at Massachusetts' Milton Academy, smashed out a double and two singles, sparkplugged the team from his shortstop position to an 11-5 victory. Japan's bespectacled Foreign Minister Zentaro Kosaka, 48, who also played shortstop, hit two hard singles, shared best-player honors with MacArthur...
...from more than 20 Italian, English, French and U.S. firms-including renowned racing names like Lotus, Cooper and OSCA-who are building the new cars at peak capacity. Europeans are grooming their Formula Junior cars with Grand Prix care and cash. When New York's grand old Vanderbilt Cup was revived in June after a 22-year lapse, the promoters shrewdly chose the Formula Junior as the competition class, drew such top drivers as Walt Hansgen, Carroll Shelby, George Constantine and Jim Rath-mann, winner of this year's rugged Indianapolis...
...barren table in the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Holmdel, N.J., Dr. John Robinson Pierce gulped coffee and nibbled nervously on a doughnut. A loudspeaker clicked on, long enough for a brief, metallic announcement: "Trinidad still tracking." Fidgeting, Pierce waited in the silence that followed, twisting the coffee cup in his hands. Suddenly, the speaker crackled again, and an excited voice relayed a message from Australia: "Woomera has it!" Pierce leaped out of his chair, his glasses bouncing on his nose. "It's in orbit," he cried. "Echo is in orbit." An hour later, a familiar voice filled the room...
...talks ended, Nyasaland's leading white delegate, A.C.W. Dixon, turned to Dr. Banda and glowed: "Do call me up as soon as you get back, and let's have a cup of tea together." But within 24 hours Banda gave an interview suggesting that he had only postponed his more extreme demands: "I am coming back to England very soon. And next time, I shall say, 'Now, Mr. Colonial Secretary, I want this and this and this.'" Such bluster might only be meant to reassure extremists back home. A reporter pressed a further question: Is independence...