Word: drews
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...authorship of the plan portends harmony. Its sponsors are Michigan's Governor George Romney, a probable candidate for the presidential nomination, and Wisconsin's Representative Melvin Laird who as platform-committee chairman in 1964 tried to bring everybody together but drew fire from both sides. They propose that the several hundred participants in the pre-convention-most of them party leaders who would also be delegates to the regular convention the next year-first choose a drafting committee and then act on the committee's platform...
...Rica, which has no army, the election was only one more in a long chain of peaceful choices at the ballot box; only twice in this century has a Costa Rican President taken power by force. Backed by a coalition of small parties led by three former Presidents, Trejos drew first blood when he charged the Oduber crowd with "growing socialism," then uneasily held still as his backers spread hints that Oduber was a Communist. For Trejos, running the country may be tougher than winning the office. Oduber's Liberation Party finished ahead in the Legislative Assembly races...
Billy Graham's integrated crusade in Greenville, S.C., last week drew so many people to the huge Textile Hall that he had to go on double sessions. But for Billy, success was touched with sadness. Boycotting the crusade were the 3,800 intensely religious students and faculty of fundamentalist Bob Jones University, where Graham studied and "got my evangelism...
...particularly busy that winter. Then a professor of Greek and Latin, he had taken on a new course, and night after night he sat at his desk composing his lectures. Meanwhile, his wife sat on the couch near by, quietly scribbling away with a pencil. One evening she stopped, drew a firm line on the paper and said with a sigh of relief, "There. That's done. Would you like to read it?" Highet said rather vaguely, "Yes, of course." He started to read the pages covered with his wife's precise handwriting, and discovered to his amazement...
...Shipping Magnate Stavros Niarchos (21%), the U.S.'s Reynolds Metals (17%) and the Greek government (12%). Pechiney put up half the capital, has nine men on the 18-member board of directors, among them its own director-general, Pierre Jouven, who is chairman of the new company. What drew Pechiney to Greece, aside from the plentiful bauxite? Cheap labor, one of the Mediterranean's deepest harbors at Antikyra, and the Greek government's promise to supply low-cost electricity...