Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consult with the President of the U.S. ? this dear, illustrious man on whom so much of the survival of the free world depends." De Gaulle seemed almost relieved when the welcome was over, when he was safely in the presidential limousine, rolling smoothly past the kids with their Easter outfits and their box Brownies, past the fluttering Tricolors?and on to Blair House under a sun as bright as the Côte d'Azur...
Voice of Conscience. A few protests came from the tiny group of Progressive Party members of Parliament, but the loudest voice of opposition came from churchmen. From Swaziland, where he had fled to avoid arrest by Verwoerd's police, Ambrose Reeves, Anglican Bishop of Johannesburg, published an Easter message: "As Christians, we dare not pretend that we have no responsibility for all that is happening in South Africa ... To do that would make us absentees from history." Militant Joost de Blank, Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town, aimed his attack at the Dutch Reformed Church, which provides the philosophic base...
...March one of the worst building months in a long time, home building has increased to a normal rate." The estimate is still for 1,115,000 starts in 1960-by no means a record, but not bad. Department store sales for the second week in April set an Easter season record. They rose 18% over the same week...
...Manhattan last week, 17 Russians toured Chinatown and peered at Easter gowns in Fifth Avenue shopwindows. As cherry blossoms bloomed in Washington, 20 Japanese climbed out of their touring bus to snap pictures. Along Chicago's State Street wandered 72 curious Finnish businessmen. (Their hotel flew Finnish flags, provided Finnish maids for room service.) The Russians, the Japanese and the Finns are part of a new foreign invasion. They may not be seeing America first, but they are seeing it at last...
...contour of which mirrors the onion-topped domes of the Kremlin's shrine of St. Basil. The Great Hall of St. George in the Grand Kremlin Palace is a massive-pillared, arching vault lit by gilded one-ton chandeliers. The last Czar, Nicholas II, could boast a gilded Easter egg celebrating three centuries (1613-1913) of Romanov rule. It was inlaid with miniature portraits of all the Romanov czars, and thanks to a Bolshevik firing squad, soon proved prophetically complete...