Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Disney's 1960 losses: $1,500,000. The tigers are pretty, the boa is a swallowpaloosa, the tree house is a little boy's daydream. And the violent, ludicrous last-reel battle with the pirates is a grand display of blow-the-man-downmanship-a regular Donald Duck comedy in live action...
...Donald J. Eberly, assistant director of the International Students Office, called the proposal "too small." While Millikan suggested limiting the project to "several thousand" people, Eberly saw an eventual need for several hundred thousand. He noted that Afghanistan hopes to increase its elementary educational facilities from 800 to 12,000 schools by 1980, and that in that nation alone, a teacher training program could effectively employ several thousand Americans...
...marble of Washington, in an ugly mustard-colored building squatting above the U.S. Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, the Laotian skirmishes became new red dots on a vast, well-dotted map of the Pacific frontier. In a windowless basement room that once served as a hospital morgue, Admiral Harry Donald Felt, U.S. Commander in Chief Pacific (CINCPAC), met with his staff for their briefing. Officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines mulled over the latest intelligence reports. Then the little man with the four stars and the weight of half a world on his shoulders issued orders that...
...lowest point in 4½ years, and U.S. visitors could spend their money without discount at department stores from Montreal to Vancouver. The currency decline may touch Canadian national pride, but it is just what the financial doctor ordered. In his interim budget, Finance Minister Donald Fleming announced his intention to realign the nation's lopsided balance of payments with the U.S. by imposing heavy taxes on U.S. investors. As to the effect on the dollar, Fleming reasoned that more taxes will dampen U.S. enthusiasm for Canadian stocks and bonds, thus make Canadian money more plentiful, and hence cheaper...
...Donald Arthur Glaser, 34, wore an evening waistcoat that was yellowed with age when he stepped up to receive his Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden's King Gustav VI Adolf early this month. The old vest, he explained, had been worn by two other Nobelmen, Edwin McMillan and Emilio Segre, before him, "and I guess I'll pass it along to somebody else for some future Nobel ceremony." Chances are, Glaser himself may some day want it back for just that reason. Having reached top rank in his field with his invention of a bubble chamber for photographing atomic...