Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Major new investments in the chemical industry are sure to force a cutback in consumer production, housing, possibly defense; but the situation on Russian farms warrants it. Yields this year have been poor in the Ukraine and Siberia. Last week the administrator for the Vir gin Lands, Khrushchev's...
There were no survivors, and no immediate clues to the crash. It was the second-worst commercial single-plane disaster in history, surpassed only by an Air France crash in Paris last year that killed 130.
Syndicated columnists lost little time in considering the changes set in motion by Kennedy's death. Two of the best of these pundits focused on the men most closely surrounding the presidency. Columnist Joseph Alsop was pleased by the prospect that President Johnson planned to keep, for a while...
Panic. Such was Wall Street's reaction to the death of the President, and such is the panic that usually grips the financial community when an unforeseen disaster hits the Street. But the market also has a history of quickly recovering such losses-and businessmen of recovering their composure...
Died. Donald Dean Summerville, 48, mayor of Toronto, a onetime R.C.A.F. pilot who won an upset victory last December over a longtime incumbent, in less than a year made a strong start at cutting civic waste and featherbedding; of a heart attack suffered while tending goal in an exhibition hockey...